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  • adjective Of or relating to daemons; diabolical.

Etymologies

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daemonic +‎ -al

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Examples

  • “Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemonical hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.”

    And the moon is always gibbous | Living the Liminal 2008

  • It is most powerful in youth; it is most powerful upon youth; yet some retain it till far on in years, and no age but feels its sway: -- a veiled and mysterious force; sometimes daemonical, often divine: at once the delight and the despair of man.

    Hints for Lovers 1899

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