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Definition of Deevs
1. deev [n] - See also: deev
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deevs
Literary usage of Deevs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pedigree of the Devil by Frederic Thomas Hall (1883)
"... Spirits—Shade and Psyche—Dreams— Manes and
Manes-worship—Patron-saints—Monsters—Jinns— Peris and deevs—Elves—Mermen—Mermaids
and Necks— Fairies—Lilith, ..."
2. The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various by Thomas Keightley (1905)
"The Peries and deevs of the modern Persians answer to the good and evil Jinn of
the Arabs, of whose origin and nature we shall presently give an account. ..."
3. Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission from Country by Thomas Keightley (1834)
"I regret that the translator should have employed the terms Fairies and Demons,
instead of Peris and deevs, as it is productive of some little confusion. ..."
4. All the World Over by Edwin Hodder (1875)
"From this religious faith of Persia we get the fairy-lore of Peries and deevs,
good spirits and bad, who inhabit the mystic land of ..."
5. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1878)
"He reclaimed, says Ferdosi, his subjects from a state of savage barbarity, but
his civilising efforts brought him many wars with the deevs or magicians. ..."
6. The Principles of Nature: Her Divine Relations, & a Voice to Mankind by Andrew Jackson Davis (1871)
"The word diabolos* is only another name for Zoroaster's deevs ; and• deevs is
another name for " breaths." In the English version the same is expressed by ..."
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