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quench-coal

quench-coal is the alternative form of quenchcoal.

Meaning of quenchcoal

Noun

quenchcoal (countable and uncountable, plural quenchcoals)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) 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.1615, Samuel Ward, A Coal from the Altar to Kindle the Holy Fire of Zeal

Forms of quench-coal

pluralquench-coals

Questions about quench-coal

What is quench-coal the alternative form of?
Quench-coal is the alternative form of quenchcoal.

Words near quench-coal in the dictionary

  1. quenacho
  2. quenachos
  3. quenas
  4. quench
  5. quench'd
  6. quench-coal
  7. quench-coals
  8. quenchability
  9. quenchable
  10. quenchableness
  11. quenchant

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