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nether world

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neth·er·world also nether world  (nr-wûrld)
n.
1. The world of the dead.
2. The part of society engaged in crime and vice: "In this black-white nether world, nobody judged the customers" (Malcolm X).
nether·worldly adj.
nether world
n
1. the world after death; the underworld
2. hell
3. a criminal underworld Also called (for sense 1, 2) nether regions
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No sound Of bird now flutters from the hushed hillside; All, all is still, save for the wind that wails And whistles through the long night where the ghosts Hither and thither in the gloom go by, And spirits from the nether world arise Under the ominous clouds.
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Intently he listened for any sound from the nether world, but all was as silent below as above; the house under the ground seemed to be but one more empty tenement in the void.
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Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.
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