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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
brimstone
 
SYLLABICATION:brim·stone
PRONUNCIATION:  brmstn
NOUN:1. Sulfur. 2a. Damnation to hell. b. Fiery or passionate rhetoric: “the great American evangelist of Yankee bargain-hunting, converting us . . . with the brimstone of his secular preaching” (Rushworth M. Kidder).
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English brimston, from Old English brynstn. See gwher- in Appendix I.
 
 
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