What is "abysms"

Usage examples of "abysms".

Then, as I playfully shook him and turned him around, I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that broods beyond time.

That primal and interior something in man, in his soul’s abysms, coloring all, and, by exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty to him -- something continually touch’d upon and attain’d by the old poems and ballads of feudalism, and often the principal foundation of them -- modern science and democracy appear to be endangering, perhaps eliminating.

Think on that, Unbeliever"-he invested the title with abysms of contempt-"if you require to know where you are.