Meanings
- lifestyleThe signal for the final dissolution of all things by God; the last trump; the end of the world.
`[B]ut I knew you'd lie till the crack of doom unless I found you out openly.'
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 2121 more example
Why do you ſhew me this?—A fourth? Start eyes! / What will the Line ſtretch out to th' cracke of Doome?
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 144
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
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Origin
Referring to a loud noise, as in “crack of thunder”, suggested in Revelation 6:1 and 8:5.
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