Hellproof

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resistant to hell.

    "A short while after we had published our early experiments with quartz glass, a man in Southern Virginia wrote to suggest that there might be mutual profit for him and for me if we would consider making silica-glass coffins which, he said, ought to be hellproof."

Example

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"A short while after we had published our early experiments with quartz glass, a man in Southern Virginia wrote to suggest that there might be mutual profit for him and for me if we would consider making silica-glass coffins which, he said, ought to be hellproof."

Etymology

From hell + -proof.

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