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noun
- 1. sulphur. archaic
- 2. a bright yellow butterfly or moth.
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Meaning of brimstone in English. brimstone. noun [ U ] old use uk / ˈbrɪm.stəʊn / us / ˈbrɪm.stoʊn / Add to word list. the chemical sulphur. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Chemical elements. actinium. alkali metal. americium. antimony. astatine. berkelium. bromine. calcium. fluorine. germanium. lithium. manganese. nickel. plutonium.
noun. brim· stone ˈbrim-ˌstōn. : sulfur. Word History. Etymology. Middle English brinston, probably from birnen to burn + ston stone. First Known Use. 12th century, in the meaning defined above. Time Traveler. The first known use of brimstone was in the 12th century. See more words from the same century. Phrases Containing brimstone.
(Definition of brimstone from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of brimstone. brimstone. He was not a fire and brimstone kind of preacher. From Los Angeles Times. It's a dark, furious image with a lingering odor of brimstone. From The Verge. Now at least, we can be sure of the brimstone.
The burning smell of a lightning strike — and the association of lightning with divine punishment — produced the connection between burning sulfur, or brimstone, and God's wrath. Definitions of brimstone. noun. an old name for sulfur. synonyms: native sulfur, native sulphur. see more.
n. 1. Sulfur, especially considered as a component of the torments of hell in Christianity. 2. a. Damnation to hell. b. Vehement or condemnatory rhetoric, especially rhetoric warning of the torments of hell for immoral behavior: a sermon full of fire and brimstone.
noun. sulfur. a virago; shrew. brimstone. / ˈbrɪmˌstəʊn / noun. an obsolete name for sulphur. a common yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni , of N temperate regions of the Old World: family Pieridae. archaic. a scolding nagging woman; virago.
adjective. Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell. ' [W]ho walked up Aldersgate-street to some chapel where she comforts herself with brimstone doctrine.' — Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller.
