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hell-fire, hell fire
[Orig. two words, helle being genitive case; in later use usually hyphened. In N.T. versions rendering Gr. γέεννα τοῦ πυρός lit. gehenna (or hell) of fire, i.e. fiery hell.]
1. The fire of hell.
a1000Boeth. Metr. viii. 101 Etne..þæt mon helle fyr hateð wide. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xviii. 9 Asend on helle fyr [1382 Wyclif, fijr of helle; 1526 Tindale, hell fyre; 1582 Rhem. hel of fire]. a1225Ancr. R. 150 Iwurð, buten ende, helle fures fode. a1300Cursor M. 2894 Þat ȝee in hell fire for brin. 1526Tindale Matt. v. 22 In daunger of hell fyre. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. App. 1 §34 Devils were not ordained of God for hell-fire, but hell-fire for them. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 316 Neither..hell-fire, nor ichor..can get rid of this limp band. 1915W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxviii. 122 He could go his way without the intolerable dread of hell-fire. 1972P. M. Hubbard Whisper in Glen vi. 59 Abomination was one of the devalued words. No one had used it wholly seriously. Mrs Haskell did, so that there was the reek of hell-fire to it.
2. A member of a Hell-fire club.
1720in Malcolm Mann. & Cust. Lond. (1808) 149 The Hell-Fires..fly at Divinity. The third person of the Trinity is what they peculiarly attack..calling for a Holy-Ghost-pye at the Tavern.
3. attrib. Hell-fire club, name given to clubs of reckless or abandoned young men, chiefly about the beginning of the eighteenth century. (See N. & Q. 12 May 1860, 27 Aug. 1892, etc.)
1721(title) The Hell Fire Club, kept by a Society of Blasphemers. 1755Connoisseur No. 54 The Mohocks, and the members of the Hell-Fire-Club, the heroes of the last generation..struck out mighty good jokes from all kinds of violence and blasphemy. 1821De Quincey Richter Wks. (1863) XIII. 124 When a member of the Hell-fire club, he actually tied a poor man to the spit, and, having spitted him, proceeded to roast him. 1825R. Chambers Trad. Edinb. II. 259. 1881 Haydn's Dict. Dates, Hell-fire clubs, three of these associations were suppressed 1721. 1952R. Campbell Lorca 10 The hell-fire sermons of the local priest. 1957J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation (new ed.) ii. 31 A Hell-fire revivalist preacher. 1957Economist 21 Dec. 1046/3 He reacted violently..against the hellfire faith which had laid waste his childhood. 1972P. M. Hubbard Whisper in Glen xviii. 175 The old woman tried to purge her own indiscretions by giving her daughter a hell-fire upbringing.
4. advb. In profane use: ‘Damned’.
1760C. Johnston Chrysal (1761) II. i. i. 2 The weather in summer is hell-fire hot, in winter hell-fire cold. Now what sense can the very Devil himself..make of such contradictions? |