hellfire
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hellfire
- /ˈhɛlˌfaɪə/ UK
- /ˈhɛlˌfaɪəɹ/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle English helle fire, helever, from Old English hellefȳr, equivalent to hell + fire. Cognate with West Frisian helfjoer (“hellfire”), Dutch hellevuur (“hellfire”), German Höllenfeuer (“hellfire”).
noun hellfires · Hellfire · hell-fire · Hell-fire
- The fire of Hell. The sound of the gang was diminishing into the distance, and the prophet of doom, restored to eloquence, was sending threatful bolts of damnation, hell-fire, and a brimstone gehenna hurtling after them.
- Fire produced by the Devil, or a similar supernatural creature connected to Hell.
- A fire that burns with unusual heat or ferocity.
- Ellipsis of AGM-114 Hellfire
adjective more hellfire · most hellfire · hell-fire
- Of or relating to a violent, apocalyptic and ultimate day of reckoning and judgment; usually characterizing a form of Christian preaching. The advance of liberalism, so-called, in Christianity, during the past fifty years, may fairly be called a victory of healthy-mindedness within the church over the morbidness with which the old hell-fire theology was more harmoniously related.
interjection hell-fire
- hell; damn; blast
Translations
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noun fire of hell
| 日本語 | 業火 gōka |
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| 中文 | 地獄之火 /地狱之火 dìyùzhīhuǒ, 業火 /业火 :yèhuǒ |
| हिन्दी | दोजग dojag, जहन्नम jahannam |
| Português | fogo do inferno |
| Français | feu de l'enfer |
| Deutsch | Höllenfeuer |
| Italiano | fuoco d'inferno, fiamme dell'inferno |
| Ελληνικά | πυρ το εξώτερο pyr to exótero |
| Русский | гее́нна о́гненная gejénna ógnennaja, а́дский ого́нь ádskij ogónʹ |
| العربية | نَارُ جَهَنَّم nāru jahannam |
| עברית | תֹּפֶת tófet |
noun intensive fire
| עברית | תֹּפֶת tófet |
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