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gravedom en · NOUN

Etymology

From grave + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The place, home, abode, or world of the dead; death; grave.
    • Death comes, and its victims go either into the "sea" — watery gravedom, or into Hades, the earthly gravedom. 1883, The Rainbow, a magazine of Christian literature, page 136:
    • [...] what purpose could possibly be served by the angels performing a separation of the righteous and the unrighteous when they are to be united in gravedom and then resurrected back to life on earth—or heaven in the case of anointed individuals? 2010, Robert King, Jehovah Himself Has Become King:
    • Whether they figured immediate selection for gravedom, by pointing skeletal finger, was about to commence, or what, I don't know. 2009, Harry Stephen Keeler, Hazel Goodwin Keeler, The Circus Stealers: