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Definition of Hell raising
1. Noun. Making trouble just for the fun of it.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hell Raising
Literary usage of Hell raising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works by James Ussher, Charles Richard Elrington (1625)
"... working thereby immortality for us, O Saviour : and didst dwell in the grave,
that thou mightest free us from hell, raising us up together with thyself. ..."
2. A Disputation on Holy Scripture by William Whitaker, William Fitzgerald (1849)
"Then in the text a new sentence begins, " And in hell raising up his eyes," &c.
Chap. xix. last verse, ..."
3. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1921)
"Why, dear, since the day you came into my life, hell-raising took a sneak out
the back door and God poked His toe in the front, and ever since then I think ..."
4. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"Why, dear, since the day you came into my life hell-raising took a sneak out the
back door and God poked His toe in the front, and ever since then I think ..."
5. Rebellion of Hell: A Poem by James Wynkoop (1908)
"... THE REBELLION OF HELL Raising the fallen of the tri-commands: Love, Strength,
Stability, by Clement led, Against the forces Mideon ranks the head; ..."
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