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The worship of devils (especially Satan)
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diabolism
Word definitions for diabolism in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600s, from Ecclesiastical Greek diabolos "devil" (see devil (n.)) + -ism .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the worship of devils (especially Satan) [syn: demonism , Satanism ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diabolism \Di*ab"o*lism\, n. Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil. Possession by the devil. --Bp. Warburton.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Worship of the devil; Satanism 2 Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil. 3 Possession by the devil.
Usage examples of diabolism.
Of all the permitted diabolism with which the Enemy is suffered to torment man and his poor relations, the animals, this corkscrew member of the Gramineae, Anthistiria infernalis, is the deadliest.
Money was poured out like water, and it has been said that the entire floodtide of poison, witchcraft and diabolism was unloosed to attain the ends of that marvellous beauty (so Mme.
He would leave it behind him, would quit the armed camps and the steppes, and put a thousand miles between him and the blue mysterious East where the most basic laws of nature could be set at naught, by what diabolism he could not guess.