Brimstone

Quick meaning: Brimstone is a noun meaning (biblical) The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.

Meaning

(biblical) The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.

More Meanings

1. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
2. (Internet slang) Online content of exceptionally poor quality, lower than coal.
3. (archaic) Sulfur.
4. (obsolete) A whore.
5. (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.

Example Sentences

Don't think, young man, that we go to the expense of flower of brimstone and molasses, just to purify them.

[W]hen he [the Devil] is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss […]

Weel I wot I wad be broken if I were to gie sic weight to the folk that come to buy our pepper and brimstone, and suchlike sweetmeats.

But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.

Word Forms

• brimstones

Antonyms for brimstone

Common opposites include gemerald.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hellfire, sulphur, sulfur, brimfire, blazes, inferno.

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