different between damnation vs brimstone

English

Etymology

From Middle English dampnacioun, from Old French dampnacion, from Latin damnatio.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /dæm?ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

damnation (countable and uncountable, plural damnations)

1. The state of being damned; condemnation; openly expressed disapprobation.
2. (religion) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.

Synonyms

• (euphemistic): tarnation

Antonyms

• (in religion): salvation

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin damn?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.na.sj??/

Noun

damnation f (plural damnations)

1. damnation

Related terms

• damner

Further reading

• “damnation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English brymston, brimston, bremston, forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynst?n (“brimstone”, literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to brian +? stone, or burn +? stone. Cognate with Scots brunstane (“brimstone”), Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur / sulphur, brimstone”), German Bernstein (“amber”). Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone.

Once a synonym for "sulfur / sulphur", the word is now restricted to Biblical usage.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??m?st??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??m?sto?n/

Noun

brimstone (countable and uncountable, plural brimstones)

1. The sulfur / sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
2. (archaic) Sulfur / sulphur.
3. (obsolete) A whore.
   • 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 237:

     I went to the park, picked up a low Brimstone, called myself a Barber, & agreed with her for Sixpence, went to the bottom of the park, arm in arm, & dipped my machine in the Canal […].

4. (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
5. The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.

Derived terms

• fire and brimstone
• rain fire and brimstone
• brimstone match
• brimstone flower

Translations

Anagrams

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