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Belief in, or worship of demons or devils.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- 1699, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Of Virtue, and the Belief of a Deity, in An Inquiry Concerning Virtue in Two Discourses, London: A. Bell et al., p. 10, [...] if he believes more of the prevalency of an ill designing Principle than of a good one, he is then more a Daemonist than he is a Theist, and may be called a Daemonist from the side to which the balance most inclines. ¶ All these sorts both of Daemonism, Polytheism, Atheism, and Theism, may be mixed [...]
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The quality of being demonic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, often, uncountable
Examples
- 1915, Henry James, letter to Evan Charteris dated 22 January, 1915 in Percy Lubbock (ed.), The Letters of Henry James, London: Macmillan, Volume 2, p. 453, What a pitiful horror indeed must that Ypres desolation and desecration be—a baseness of demonism.
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An act or event attributed to demons or devils; an evil act.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: diabolism, Satanism
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Broader terms: sorcery, black magic, black art, necromancy
