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Definition of Hellbent
1. stubbornly determined [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hellbent
Literary usage of Hellbent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Sunflower Land: Stories of God's Own Country by Roswell Martin Field (1892)
"To counteract the effect of this speech the people of hellbent immediately ...
Then the bad men of hellbent organized a raid, and one dark and otherwise ..."
2. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1883)
"... or too summery ; too mechanical, or too transcendental; too hellbent, or too
heavenly ; too earthly, or too spiritual; too devilish, or too divine ! ..."
3. The Salamander by Owen Johnson (1914)
"That I'm riding hellbent to the devil ? Correct! " He did not say it with
braggadocio, and yet it seemed incongruous, after the glimpse she had had of the ..."
4. Recollections of a California Pioneer by Carlisle Stewart Abbott (1917)
"... all right for part of the way, it soon struck against an oak tree, which
reversed the log and turned the big end upstream, and away it went, hellbent ..."
5. The Heart of the Alleghanies; Or, Western North Carolina: Comprising Its by Wilbur G. Zeigler, Ben S. Grosscup (1883)
"On Bear creek, the dogs trottin' by my side got ter snuffin' in the rocks an'
weeds, an' all o' a sudden, barking like mad, broke hellbent through the ..."
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