Synonyms for hellfire
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hel-fahyuh r |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛlˌfaɪər |
Top 10 synonyms for hellfire Other synonyms for the word hellfire
Définition of hellfire
Origin :- also hell fire, from Old English hellefyr, in which helle is the genitive case of hell. It translates Greek gehenna tou pyros, literally "fiery hell." Also used in Middle English for "erysipelas" (mid-15c.).
- adj fateful
- An order of the English council was issued to suppress Hellfire clubs.
- Extract from : « The Every Day Book of History and Chronology » by Joel Munsell
- There'd have to be hellfire before anybody'd believe my story.
- Extract from : « Of Stegner's Folly » by Richard S. Shaver
- What good to me is forgiveness, if my child will be doomed to hellfire for evermore?
- Extract from : « In the Days of Chivalry » by Evelyn Everett-Green
- A gentleman commoner of Queen's was president of a 'hellfire club,' and brutal horseplay was still practised upon the weaker lads.
- Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume I. » by Leslie Stephen
- Every little black devil of a machine gun tore loose with hellfire.
- Extract from : « New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918 » by Various
- One of the preachers whom Mr. Charrington enlisted under his banner was known as "Hellfire Tom."
- Extract from : « The Great Acceptance » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
- But he said, "If there are gods, I doubt if they'd intrust a priesthood to threaten their created humanity with hellfire."
- Extract from : « Frigid Fracas » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
- An owl hooted somewhere, and a bat fluttered out of his way like a small damned soul blackened by hellfire.
- Extract from : « The Chapter Ends » by Poul William Anderson
- This man, "Hellfire Tom," lived before his conversion in a house of ill-fame.
- Extract from : « The Great Acceptance » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
- I stopped at that hellfire town for three days on my return trip and regretted it.
- Extract from : « Journeys and Experiences in Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile » by Henry Stephens
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