brimstone

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Yes, the brimstone was all right, and now for the wasps.

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  1. noun Sulfur.
  2. noun Damnation to hell.
  3. noun Fiery or passionate rhetoric: "the great American evangelist of Yankee bargain-hunting, converting us . . . with the brimstone of his secular preaching” (Rushworth M. Kidder).

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  • The resurrection and glorification of our Lord have given such a deathblow to Satan's power that, after awhile, the eyes of all heaven will see that old Serpent, the devil, and Satan cast into the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline the Martyr Missionary
  • He thought brimstone was a tool of some kind, maybe used in the hat business to flatten out brims. —  Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves
  • He thought brimstone was a kind of inconvenience, as in "she weighted him down like a brimstone around the neck." —  Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves
  • Yes, the brimstone was all right, and now for the wasps. —  Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home
  • "The brimstone is all bagged, about four score half-stone bags. —  The Order War
 

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  1. Middle English brimston, from Old English brynstān; see gwher- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English brimston, brymston, bremston, brumston, corrupt forms of brinston, brynston, brenston, brunston, bronston, transposed bernston, bornston, etc. (= Icelandic brennisteinn; cf. Scots brunstane, bruntstane, etc.), from brin-, bren- (Anglo-Saxon berne- in bernelāc, a burnt-offering) (from brinnen, brennen, Anglo-Saxon *brinnan, burn), + ston, stone. Cf. brimfire.
 

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/ˈbrɪmstoʊn/
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