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Demonizing

Demonize \De"mon*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Demonizing.] [Cf. LL. daemonizare to be possessed by a demon, Gr. ?.]

  1. To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.

  2. To control or possess by a demon.

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demonizing

vb. (present participle of demonize English)

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The system of slavery, maintained for over two hundred years at the South, had performed a most perverting, morally desolating, and we might say, demonizing work on the dominant race, which people bred under our free civilization can not at once understand, nor scarcely believe when it is declared unto them.