Punishment; penalty; pain inflicted in punishment or torture, esp. the torments of hell. (Cf. Old English helle-wíte, etc.) Obsolete.

Punishment; torment, torture, suffering or loss inflicted as punishment; persecution; spec. a punishment suffered in hell or purgatory; = pain, n.1…

figurative as one of the pains of Hell (Mark ix. 48, Isaiah lxvi. 24).

The pain, punishment, or suffering thought to be endured by souls in hell or purgatory; (also) an instance of this. Obsolete.

The punishment or suffering thought to be endured by souls in hell, purgatory, etc.; (also) an instance or particular form of such punishment. Also…

the punishment of lost souls after physical death, the state of being damned to eternal suffering. Cf. sense 3a.

Sufferings after death as a punishment for sins; esp. the sufferings of purgatory. Obsolete.

poetic. burning marl n. the ground of Hell; (symbolically) the torments of Hell. Obsolete.

= penance, n. (in various senses).

spec. The punishment of hell.