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harrowing of hell

noun

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  1. A raid into the underworld by a heroic figure.

    • Not the direct vision of the harrowings of hell as reported, for example, by many Christian visionaries, but accounts given by the departed souls themselves are more frequent and typical features of Jewish moralist writing.
    • Of the four harrowings of hell that are cornerstones of Western literature […], we can eliminate the oldest.
    • […] the Hero Twins go on to defeat Xibalba and its ghastly denizens, a true Harrowing of Hell.

  2. Christ's freeing from the underworld of those souls of the dead who were to go to Heaven.

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