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  • verb Present participle of diabolize.

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Examples

  • Their so many thing you can oppose in the bill and offer amandements without diabolizing the hole bill.

    CNN Truth Squad: Will health bill pay for illegal immigrants? 2009

  • His face during the process of make-up was always a battle-ground between the horriblest Indian scowl and a grin of delight at his success in diabolizing his visage with the paints.

    Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • But it was maintained that so many dehumanizing ideas were mixed up with his conceptions of man, and so many diabolizing attributes embodied in his imagination of the Deity, that his system of beliefs was tainted throughout by them, and that the fact of his being so remarkable a logician recoiled on the premises which pointed his inexorable syllogisms to such revolting conclusions.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • But it was maintained that so many dehumanizing ideas were mixed up with his conceptions of man, and so many diabolizing attributes embodied in his imagination of the Deity, that his system of beliefs was tainted throughout by them, and that the fact of his being so remarkable

    Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • What we now do to ourselves by diabolizing the shadow is unconscionable harm to ourselves and to each other.

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2008

  • To give it the freedom and respect that it deserves as a part of ourselves, rather than diabolizing it.

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2008

  • Now, because it is these larvæ they evoke, the occultists, who cannot, of course, draw down the angels, always get the ones who have joined the party of Evil, so unconsciously and probably involuntarily the spiritist is always diabolizing. "

    Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877

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