brimstone

The definition of brimstone is sulfur, usually referenced when describing hell.

(noun)

An example of brimstone is something that burns in the fictional images of hell.

See brimstone in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

sulfur: now chiefly in the phrases , , the torments of damnation to hell

Origin: ME brimston < OE brynstan: see burn & stone

See brimstone in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Sulfur.
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).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English brimston

Origin: , from Old English brynstān; see g^wher- in Indo-European roots

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