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Definition of "fire and brimstone" []

  • The punishment of hell. (noun)
  • Homiletic rhetoric describing or warning of the punishment of hell. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "fire and brimstone" in a sentence
  • "I have to get into Bristol and get a look at my little peapatch, so I can prepare my own kind of fire and brimstone for what’s coming up next."
Words like "fire and brimstone"
eternal damnation