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English
Noun
ECT (countable and uncountable, plural ECTs)
- (medicine) Initialism of electroconvulsive therapy.
- (theology, uncountable) Initialism of endless/eternal/everlasting conscious torment (“traditional view of the nature of Hell”).
2015, Jeremy Jernigan, Redeeming Pleasure: How the Pursuit of Pleasure Mirrors Our Hunger for God, Hachette, →ISBN:The traditional ECT view of hell combines an eternal life-sentence while also adding to that a perpetual torture at the same time.
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Initialism of electroconvulsive therapy
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