'‘What she offered,’ notes the author, ‘in her most sensual, primitive, uncivilized and, from the standpoint of normal aesthetics, distasteful acts slipped over the brink - and she could take you with her - into the abysms of the sacred.’'
'Crystal reached her shaking hand and took it as if it was her last salvation before she falls in the abysm.'
((n.) An abyss; a gulf.)
noun
1.
an abyss.
Examples:
"abysms can be out of things."
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French abisme, medieval Latin abysmus, alteration of late Latin abyssus ‘bottomless pit’, the ending being assimilated to the Greek ending -ismos.
