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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete, idiomatic, Puritanism) A person or thing that undermines religious zeal; hence a heartless, uncaring person with respect to religion..
Zeal has in this our earthly mold little fuel and much quench-coal; it is hardly fired and soon cooled.
You are quenchcoal; no sparkle of grace can kindle upon your cold hearth.
In 1636 he published two books at once, or immediately after each other. One of them was called The Quench Coal, in answer to that called A Coal from the Altar; against placing the Communion-Table Altarwise.
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Quenchcoal means (obsolete, idiomatic, Puritanism) A person or thing that undermines religious zeal; hence a heartless, uncaring person with respect to religion..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Zeal has in this our earthly mold little fuel and much quench-coal; it is hardly fired and soon cooled.
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