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Tophet

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To·phet  (tft, -ft)
n.
1. An extremely unpleasant or painful condition or place.
2. Hell.
[Middle English, from Hebrew tpet, a place where children were burned in sacrifice; see wtp in Semitic roots.]


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It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting in Tophet.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Smooth-it-away, while we remained in the smoky and lurid cavern, took occasion to prove that Tophet has not even a metaphorical existence.
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We no longer groan and heap ashes upon our heads when the flames of Tophet are mentioned.
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