Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
hell .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Truly are they called hells, for there the love of evil and hatred of the neighbour prompt to action.
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Religiously defined as hells denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension
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Religiously defined as hells denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension
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A mere official denial of the charges would have been useless; a disinterested person was needed to report upon the prisons and _étapes_ which had been described as hells upon earth, and to either confirm or gainsay the statements made by the American traveller.
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"A thousand years in the lowest of the hells is the atonement prescribed by the Nichirenites for the priests of all other sects."
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
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Public gambling, which only existed by and through what were popularly termed hells, might be easily suppressed.
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Guess I'll have to work some more "hells" in there!
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The copy I have at my bedside has the "hells" and the "god-damns" of the original, but no f-words.
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I see people using "hells" all the damn time, but I've never understood why.
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And at the same time, it made me realize how amazingly good we've got it here in the US, and how we have to MANUFACTURE our own problems because we've never seen the kind of hells they've seen.
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