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| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of netherworld
Origin :- also nether-world, 1630s, "place beneath the earth," from nether + world.
- As in inferno : noun hell
- And there are others who find their joy in this netherworld!
- Extract from : « London's Underworld » by Thomas Holmes
- But out of the purlieus of this netherworld strange beings issue when the shades of evening fall.
- Extract from : « London's Underworld » by Thomas Holmes
- And if a word of mine can reach the toiling sisters in the netherworld, I would say to them: Be hopeful!
- Extract from : « London's Underworld » by Thomas Holmes
- Both belong to the Upperworld of this Fableland; hence they stand in contrast with the Netherworld, which is now to follow.
- Extract from : « Homer's Odyssey » by Denton J. Snider
- The experience with the Italian, however, threatened to bring the netherworld up again.
- Extract from : « Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology » by C. G. Jung
- She wrestled with him where the darknesses roll their snake-eyed torrents over between jagged horns of the netherworld.
- Extract from : « The Amazing Marriage, Complete » by George Meredith
- Osiris was the serpent-soul in the water, and the serpent (leviathan) of the ocean which 'encircled the netherworld'.
- Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia » by Various
- It is the repose of utter silence and quietude, a netherworld only half lighted by the worn-out moon.
- Extract from : « The Crest of the Continent » by Ernest Ingersoll
- At length Ea hearkens and intercedes with Nergal, god of the Netherworld, who consents to release the spirit for a little while.
- Extract from : « An Introduction to Mythology » by Lewis Spence
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