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Webster 1913 Edition
Chasm
1.
A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
That deep, romantic
chasm
which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge.
2.
A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
Memory . . . fills up the
chasms
of thought. Addison.
Webster 1828 Edition
Chasm
CHASM
, n.1.
A cleft; a fissure; a gap; properly, an opening made by disrupture, as a beach in the earth or a rock.2.
A void space; a vacuity.Between the two propositions, that the gospel is true and that it is false, what a fearful chasm! The unsettled reason hovers over it in dismay.