Hellfire
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈhɛlˌfaɪə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hellfire is a noun meaning (uncountable) The fire of Hell.
Meaning
(uncountable) The fire of Hell.
More Meanings
- (uncountable) Fire produced by the Devil, or a similar supernatural creature connected to Hell.
- (countable) A fire that burns with unusual heat or ferocity.
- (countable, military) Ellipsis of AGM-114 Hellfire.
- Of or relating to a violent, apocalyptic and ultimate day of reckoning and judgment; usually characterizing a form of Christian preaching.
- hell; damn; blast
Example Sentences
The sound of the gang was diminishing into the distance, and the prophet of doom, restored to eloquence, was sending threatful bolts of damnation, hell-fire, and a brimstone gehenna hurtling after them.
The advance of liberalism, so-called, in Christianity, during the past fifty years, may fairly be called a victory of healthy-mindedness within the church over the morbidness with which the old hell-fire theology was more harmoniously related.
Sermons such as The Eternity of Hell Torments and The Future Punishment of the Wicked Unavoidable and Intolerable, as well as several manuscript examples, serve to mark the distinction between a true hellfire sermon and the proto-eschatological concerns of Sinners [in the Hands of an Angry God], consumed as it is with the here and now.
Word Forms
- hellfires
- hell-fire
- Hell-fire
- hell
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include inferno, brimstone, hell, hellhole, heil, heckfire.
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