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fire-and-brimstone
[ fahyuhr-uhn-brim-stohn ]
adjective
- threatening punishment in the hereafter:
a fire-and-brimstone sermon.
fire-and-brimstone
adjective
- (of a sermon, preacher, etc) zealous, esp in threatening eternal damnation
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fire-and-brimstone1
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Example Sentences
Mrs. Lincoln, who is a bit of a Bible-thumper, is strongly depicted in the film instead as a fire-and-brimstone conservative.
Despite provoking some fire-and-brimstone responses, I didn't plan to look back at Sodom.
Rick Santorum is a loyal soldier, but not a party leader—he might actually believe the fire-and-brimstone stuff.
The mural decorations of the Silver Pagoda would win the unqualified approval of an oldtime fire-and-brimstone preacher.
Why don't the adherents of the fire-and-brimstone theory picture hell as a place where we can never act on impulse?
Having exhausted Hell-fire-and-brimstone, the evangel turns to the Demon Rum.
Why has not some one already written a fire-and-brimstone romance about them?
A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.
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