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fire-and-brimstone

(fīr ən brimstōn′)

adjective

characterized by an emphasis on damnation and eternal punishment: a fire-and-brimstone sermon

See fire-and-brimstone in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. The punishment of hell.
  2. Homiletic rhetoric describing or warning of the punishment of hell.

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