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noun

Diabolism n.

Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil.

Possession by the devil.

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Etymology of 'Diabolism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Diabolism" Quotes from Famous Books

... ages and among all peoples it has taken firm hold on the fears, convictions and consciences of men. Anchored in credulity and superstition, in the dread and love of mystery, in the hard and fast theologic doctrines and teachings of diabolism, and under the ban of the law from its beginning, it has borne a baleful fruitage in the lives of the learned and the unlearned, the wise ...

— The Witchcraft Delusion In Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) • John M. Taylor

... found in this Satanic form of his individuality. His will, self-released from restraint, preys upon and crushes other wills. He asserts himself by enslaving others, and mimics Divinity on the stilts of diabolism. Like the barbarian who thought himself enriched by the powers and gifts of the enemy he slew, he aggrandizes his own personality, and heightens his own sense of freedom, through the subjection of feebler ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 55, May, 1862 • Various

... as one gives the lie to a lie; because [15] it is a lie, without one word of Truth in it. You must find error to be nothing: then, and only then, do you handle it in Science. The diabolism of suppositional evil at work in the name of good, is a lie of the highest degree of nothingness: just reduce this falsity to its proper [20] denomination, and you have done ...

— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy

Words linked to "Diabolism" : necromancy, demonism, Satanism, black magic, diabolatry, sorcery, diabolist, black art