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Abaddon   Listen
noun
Abaddon  n.  
1.
The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.
2.
Hell; the bottomless pit. (Poetic) "In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Abaddon" Quotes from Famous Books



... to spirit up the people to fighting with spades or bricks, if need were; and the other set in the afternoons, proving that Napoleon (that was another name for Bony, as we used to call him) was all the same as an Apollyon and Abaddon. I remember my father rather thought he should be asked to print this last set; but the parish had, perhaps, had enough of ...
— Cranford • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell



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