hellfireとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 helle fire, helever, from 古期英語 hellefȳr, equivalent to hell +‎ fire. Cognate with West Frisian helfjoer (“hellfire”), Dutch hellevuur (“hellfire”), German Höllenfeuer (“hellfire”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈhɛlˌfaɪə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈhɛlˌfaɪəɹ/

名詞

hellfire (countable and uncountable, plural hellfires)

1. (uncountable) The fire of Hell.
   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 59:

     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.

2. (uncountable) Fire produced by the Devil, or a similar supernatural creature connected to Hell.
3. (countable, by extension) A fire that burns with unusual heat or ferocity.
4. (countable, military) Ellipsis of AGM-114 Hellfire.

別の表記

• sometimes capitalized, hyphenated, or both: Hellfire, hell-fire, Hell-fire

派生語

形容詞

hellfire (comparative more hellfire, superlative most hellfire)

1. Of or relating to a violent, apocalyptic and ultimate day of reckoning and judgment; usually characterizing a form of Christian preaching.
   • 1902, William James, “Lectures 4 & 5”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2005, Sang Hyun Lee, The Princeton Companion to Jonathan Edwards, University of Princeton Press, page 253:

     Sermons such as The Eternity of Hell Torments and The Future Punishment of the Wicked Unavoidable and Intolerable, as well as several manuscript examples, serve to mark the distinction between a true hellfire sermon and the proto-eschatological concerns of Sinners [in the Hands of an Angry God], consumed as it is with the here and now.

参考

• fire and brimstone
• inferno
• purgatory

間投詞

hellfire

1. hell; damn; blast