quenchcoal
nounEtymology
From quench + coal.
Definitions
A person or thing that undermines religious zeal
A person or thing that undermines religious zeal; hence a heartless, uncaring person with respect to religion.
- Zeal has in this our earthly mold little fuel and much quench-coal; it is hardly fired and soon cooled.
- You are quenchcoal; no sparkle of grace can kindle upon your cold hearth.
- In 1636 he published two books at once, or immediately after each other. One of them was called The Quench Coal, in answer to that called A Coal from the Altar; against placing the Communion-Table Altarwise.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for quenchcoal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA