Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The person or character of a devil; the state of being a devil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The character or person of a devil or the devil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The character or person of a
devil orSatan .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His high devilship sups very well on tradesmen, usurers, apothecaries, cheats, coiners, and adulterers of wares.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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His high devilship sups very well on tradesmen, usurers, apothecaries, cheats, coiners, and adulterers of wares.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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"But I mean the convent, Pat, surely his devilship does not intrude there?"
Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera
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Milton and Göethe lived before this era, and, consequently, Satan and Mephistopheles, are imperfect impersonations of Evil -- his devilship is here incarnadined: and as the mask is gradually removed, men avert their shuddering glance, from his face, as if withered by beholding the countenance of Eblis.
Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862
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His high devilship sups very well on tradesmen, usurers, apothecaries, cheats, coiners, and adulterers of wares.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Now let Beelzebub e'en take the drum, to make his devilship a nightcap.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Now let Beelzebub e’en take the drum, to make his devilship a nightcap.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Now let Beelzebub e’en take the drum, to make his devilship a nightcap.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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