Brimstone Definition

brĭmstōn
noun

Sulfur.

Webster's New World
Sulfur, especially considered as a component of the torments of hell in Christianity.
American Heritage
Damnation to hell.
American Heritage
Vehement or condemnatory rhetoric, especially rhetoric warning of the torments of hell for immoral behavior.
A sermon full of fire and brimstone.
American Heritage

Sulphur.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • native sulfur
  • native sulphur
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adjective

Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell.

'[W]ho walked up Aldersgate-street to some chapel where she comforts herself with brimstone doctrine.' — Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller.
'[A] cheerful ballad about a murderer who was afraid to go to bed in the dark because he saw certain brimstone flames around him.' — Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbevilles.
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Other Word Forms of Brimstone

Noun

Singular:
brimstone
Plural:
brimstones

Origin of Brimstone

  • From Middle English brimston, bremston, corrupted forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynstān (“brimstone”, literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to brian +‎ stone, or burn +‎ stone. Cognate with Scots brunstane (“brimstone”), Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur, brimstone”), German Bernstein (“amber”). Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English brimston from Old English brynstān gwher- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Once a synonym for "sulphur," the word is now restricted to Biblical usage.

    From Wiktionary

Brimstone Sentence Examples

  • Among other things Hales invented a "sea-gauge" for sounding, and processes for distilling fresh from sea water, for preserving corn from weevils by fumigation with brimstone, and for salting animals whole by passing brine into their arteries.

  • A male brimstone fluttered past, there may have been two.

  • On the 3rd April the first female brimstone was seen on Latchford meadow.

  • Formerly this was employed exclusively in the free state as brimstone, and this is still the case to a considerable extent in some countries, notably in the United States, but the great bulk of sulphuric acid is now made from metallic sulphides, especially those of iron and zinc. Most of the brimstone of trade comes from Sicily, but in the United States Louisiana sulphur is playing an important part, and seems likely to oust the Sicilian sulphur.

  • Brimstone is easily burned without any extraneous help; indeed the only precaution required is to take care lest the heat produced by the burning sulphur should not volatilize part of it in the unburned state.

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