gravedom

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From grave +‎ -dom.

Noun[edit]

gravedom (uncountable)

  1. The place, home, abode, or world of the dead; death; grave.
    • 1883, The Rainbow, a magazine of Christian literature, page 136:
      Death comes, and its victims go either into the "sea" — watery gravedom, or into Hades, the earthly gravedom.
    • 2009, Harry Stephen Keeler, Hazel Goodwin Keeler, The Circus Stealers:
      Whether they figured immediate selection for gravedom, by pointing skeletal finger, was about to commence, or what, I don't know.
    • 2010, Robert King, Jehovah Himself Has Become King:
      [...] what purpose could possibly be served by the angels performing a separation of the righteous and the unrighteous when they are to be united in gravedom and then resurrected back to life on earth—or heaven in the case of anointed individuals?
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