place of torment
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After graduation, Adams went to teach school at Worcester, a "place of torment" where nobody had any ideas and everybody voiced them vigorously.
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Greek word for the place of departed spirits, translated in the English Bible and, also, in the Creed by the word "Hell," not, however, the place of torment.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
It was evident to him that his employer had consigned him to some distant place of torment from which he could never return.
From Command by McFee, William
At last the spirit fled by night from this place of torment to the home which he had so joyfully left a short time before.
From Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian by Westervelt, W. D. (William Drake)
When, therefore, we confess in the Creed that our Lord "descended into Hell," we do not mean that He entered the "place of torment," but the "place of departed spirits" or Hades.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James
