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Brimstone
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Brimstone
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1. an obsolete name for sulphur
2.
a common yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, of N temperate regions of the Old World: family Pieridae
3. archaic
a scolding nagging woman; virago
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Brimstone
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sulfur
now chiefly in the phrases fire and brimstone, hellfire and brimstone, the torments of damnation to hellWebster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Brimstone
see synonyms of brimstonen.
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.
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