Demon
['diːmən] or ['dimən]
Definition
(noun.) someone extremely diligent or skillful; 'he worked like a demon to finish the job on time'; 'she's a demon at math'.
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Definition
(n.) A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
(n.) One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.
(n.) An evil spirit; a devil.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Spirit, genius, tutelary deity.[2]. Devil, fiend, evil spirit.
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Definition
n. an evil spirit a devilfem. Dē′moness.—adjs. Demō′niac Demōnī′acal pertaining to or like demons or evil spirits: influenced by demons.—ns. Demō′niac a human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit.—adv. Demonī′acally.—n. Demonī′acism state of being a demoniac.—adj. Demō′nian (Milt.).—ns. Demō′nianism Demō′niasm possession by a demon.—v.t. Dē′monise to convert into a demon: to control or possess by a demon.—ns. Dē′monism a belief in demons; Dē′monist a believer in demons; Demonoc′racy the power of demons; Demonol′atry the worship of demons; Demonol′ater one who worships such; Demonology an account of or the study of demons and their agency.—adjs. Demonolog′ic -al.—ns. Demonol′ogist a writer on demonology; Demonomā′nia a form of mania in which the subject believes himself possessed by devils; Demon′omy the dominion of demons; Dē′monry demoniacal influence.
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Examples
- Jo glanced over her shoulder, and the little demon she was harboring said in her ear. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And proper little terrors they were, little fiends--that Gerald was a demon if ever there was one, a proper demon, ay, at six months old. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sir Leicester receives the gout as a troublesome demon, but still a demon of the patrician order. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If any true friend and well-wisher could make you a bankrupt, you would be a Duck; but as a man of property you are a Demon! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He says he wants the demon part of himself to be mated--physically--not the human being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had all his life been tortured by a furious and destructive demon, which possessed him sometimes like an insanity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And questions, now, hinted the demon just waking up in his stomach, somebody may put questions about the schedules. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then you find yourself a palpable body of darkness, a demon--' 'But why should I be a demon--? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Chariot and demon charioteer were gone by; the votary still lived. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Kick, and scream, and struggle like a demon. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Depart, and haunt my couch no more--let me die in peace if thou be mortal--if thou be a demon, thy time is not yet come. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- While the dogs are yet barking and howling--there is one dog howling like a demon--the church-clocks, as if they were startled too, begin to strike. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In this strife I have almost repulsed and crushed my better angel into a demon. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He was aware of this, and filled with demon-satisfaction that his motion held good for two. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was tractable enough, though his son was a perfect demon, ready to blow out his own or anybody else's brains if he could have got to his revolver. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Whisper it not, let the demons hear and rejoice! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To her there were not, as to Eustacia, demons in the air, and malice in every bush and bough. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This was no time for fine compunctions, nor for a chivalry that these cruel demons would neither appreciate nor reciprocate. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Then there rose suddenly above the fiendish cries of the dancing demons the awful challenge of the ape-man. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- And all the while, his wife had opposed him like one of the great demons of hell. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Scarcely waiting for their craft to touch, the creatures manning them leaped among the therns with the fury of demons. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- They believe in the transmigration of the soul into other men and into animals, and in demons, witchcraft and magic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I believe in the proud angels and the demons that are our fore-runners. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was the only one that could do anything with her demons--for she wasn't going to be bothered with them herself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was wonderful to see the fury of the contest in the girl, and the bodily struggle she made as if she were rent by the Demons of old. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In the distance behind him, lay the place where the children with pointing arms had seemed to devote him to the demons in crying out his name. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Never did I witness such a malign lust for blood as these demons of the outer air evinced in their mad battle with the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There could not be fewer than five hundred people, and they were dancing like five thousand demons. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- With shrieks of rage the demons sprang for us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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