Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A terrifying ancient deity or demon of the underworld.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mysterious divinity, viewed as an object of terror rather than of worship, by some regarded as the author of creation, and by others as a famous magician, to whose spell all the inhabitants of Hades were subjected.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See
Gorgon .
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- proper noun A
pagan god ordemon , associated with theunderworld andenvisaged as a powerfulprimordial being , whose very name wastaboo ; anincubus . - proper noun A
manufactured horror ; aFrankenstein's monster .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Greek mythology) a mysterious and terrifying deity of the underworld
Etymologies
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Examples
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He realised that he had never found out what the word Demogorgon meant.
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000
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Eternity called Demogorgon, does not in the least save the situation, because, flatly, there is no such person as Demogorgon, and if
The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Demogorgon describes it, creating "from its own wreck the thing it contemplates" (4.574).
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Unsurprisingly, we tended to battle demons and devils -- Sir James had a long-standing feud with Demogorgon and the various anti-paladins and death knights who served him -- and other exemplars of metaphysical evil.
My First Character James Maliszewski 2008
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Demogorgon to end with her highly operatic lyrical exchange with Prometheus in the guise of a "Voice (in the air, singing)."
'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa 2005
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However, the characters of Prometheus, Jupiter, and Demogorgon are more dramatically complex and ambiguous: in their doubling of each other, they qualify more definitively as mezzi caratteri like Don Giovanni than any of the more serious or comic characters that surround them.
'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa 2005
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III, scene i, which relates his descent into the abyss with Demogorgon, mimics the progression of
'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa 2005
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The description of the Hours, as they are seen in the cave of Demogorgon, is an instance of this — it fills the mind as the most charming picture — we long to see an artist at work to bring to our view the
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It was both his job and his duty to continue reading Demogorgon but there was more to it than that, Ribbon admitted to himself in a rare burst of honesty.
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000
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The dreadful notion came to him that Demogorgon had not always been like this, that the ending had originally been different, but that Marie, seeing him in Oxford and immediately identifying him with the writer of that defamatory letter, had by some remote control or sorcery altered the end of the copy that was in his, Ribbon's, possession.
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000
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