hell

A place under the English exchequer chamber where debtors of the king were confined. A profane word for a very disagreeable experience. The place to which, according to the Christian faith as expressed by fundamentalists, sinners and unbelievers are sent at death. "There are those who, for reasons satisfactory to themselves, contend that there is no such place; but even this class will admit that, if there is such a place, there is nothing there which is consistent with honesty, decency, or the right conception of things. Both the popular and the theological idea of hell has nothing in it to make any connection with the place either desirable or comfortable from a physical or spiritual point of view. The word is a synonym for all that is evil and corrupt in the grossest and basest sense of those terms." Atlanta News Publishing Co. v Medlock, 123 Ga 714, 51 SE 756.