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brimstone

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brim·stone  (brmstn)
n.
1. Sulfur.
2.
a. Damnation to hell.
b. Fiery or passionate rhetoric: "the great American evangelist of Yankee bargain-hunting, converting us . . . with the brimstone of his secular preaching" (Rushworth M. Kidder).

[Middle English brimston, from Old English brynstn; see gwher- in Indo-European roots.]

brimstone [ˈbrɪmˌstəʊn]
n
1. (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) an obsolete name for sulphur
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a common yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, of N temperate regions of the Old World: family Pieridae
3. Archaic a scolding nagging woman; virago
[Old English brynstān; related to Old Norse brennistein; see burn1, stone]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.brimstone - an old name for sulfur
atomic number 16, sulfur, sulphur, S - an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)
Translations
brimstone [ˈbrɪmstəʊn] Nazufre m
brimstone [ˈbrɪmstəʊn] n (old-fashioned, literary)soufre m
fire and brimstone → les flammes fpl de l'enfer
brimstone
n (= sulphur)Schwefel m


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Indeed, he had been already a little shaken in his resolution by a brother Methodist, who assured him that the letter was a mere obstruction to the Spirit, and expressed a fear that Brimstone was too eager for the knowledge that puffeth up.
Now all he had anticipated was come to pass: the Vicar felt the satisfaction of the prophet who saw fire and brimstone consume the city which would not mend its way to his warning.
The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod -- and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.
 
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