Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the qualities or characteristics of a demon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to, or having the nature of, a demon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to, or having the nature of, a
demon .
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Examples
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Bathsheba's beauty belonged rather to the demonian than to the angelic school, she never looked so well as when she was angry -- and particularly when the effect was heightened by a rather dashing velvet dress, carefully put on before a glass.
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I dawdled along therefore, thinking only to greet the place, walk with the stream, and lie in the meadow, sacred with the shadow of her demonian presence.
The Flight of the Shadow George MacDonald 1864
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Bathsheba’s beauty belonged rather to the demonian than to the angelic school, she never looked so well as when she was angry — and particularly when the effect was heightened by a rather dashing velvet dress, carefully put on before a glass.
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