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  • noun A chief demon; an archdevil.

Etymologies

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arch- +‎ demon

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Examples

  • No, and pray that you do not meet up with that archdemon while on your mission, brother.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • No, and pray that you do not meet up with that archdemon while on your mission, brother.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • With an almost flagrant detachment, the archdemon tossed aside his adversary as one might discard a piece of refuse.

    THE SUNDERING RICHARD A. KNAAK 2005

  • Then, with a challenging snort, the demigod lowered his antlers and met the archdemon.

    THE SUNDERING RICHARD A. KNAAK 2005

  • Perhaps realizing this, the archdemon ceased his attempts to remove the strangling plants.

    THE SUNDERING RICHARD A. KNAAK 2005

  • Expression cold and calculating, the archdemon fixed upon a band of the bullmen he had heard called tauren.

    THE SUNDERING RICHARD A. KNAAK 2005

  • Ships did not put unasked into this port, where dusky sorcerers wove awful spells in the murk of sacrificial smoke mounting eternally from bloodstained altars where naked women screamed, and where Set, the Old Serpent, archdemon of the Hyborians but god of the Stygians, was said to writhe his shining coils among his worshippers.

    Conan of Cimmeria Howard, Robert E. 1969

  • "I'm doing just that thing with Simon Rosenberg; he's going to be my archdemon of aristocracy."

    Under the Skylights Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • I still have to finish the bloody game since I had to start over when I notice I was too weak to face the archdemon!

    WN.com - Articles related to Reliance Industries to push into power and telecom 2010

  • I still have to finish the bloody game since I had to start over when I notice I was too weak to face the archdemon!

    WN.com - Articles related to Reliance Industries to push into power and telecom 2010

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