Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female demon fabled to have sexual connection with men in their sleep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female demon or fiend. See
succubus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
female demon orfiend ; asuccubus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men
Etymologies
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Examples
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Let succuba succumb, the improvable his wealth made possible!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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But there were other times at night when his defeated desire came and lay in his arms like an invisible unyielding succuba, torturing, maddening, driving him back to the street to drink until drunken sleep came with its sudden brutal mercy.
The Blood of the Conquerors Harvey Fergusson
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Teutonic 'nightmare,' French _cauchemar_ (_mara_, an incubus, or succuba), belong in this class of malefic ghosts.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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No ghost haunts it; no succubus or succuba is hidden there, to harry the life out of good men and women. "
The Grey Room Eden Phillpotts 1911
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Woe to thee, if thou harbourest the wizard and the succuba! "
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Woe to thee, if thou harbourest the wizard and the succuba! "
The Last of the Barons — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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