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Definition of Diabolisms
1. diabolism [n] - See also: diabolism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diabolisms
Literary usage of Diabolisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"... had he only some Crump-like capacity for compunction over his own peculiar
diabolisms, graceful and pleasant and invariably gentlemanly as these may be. ..."
2. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1917)
"... to crush her late antagonists by economic enactments as ruthlessly as she
would have crushed them by shells, gas, liquid flame, and other diabolisms. ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1859)
"... and the witches would never play off their diabolisms " east of the Pisca taqua."
We may imagine the relief the sorrow-stricken Puritan might have felt, ..."
4. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... the descendants of these have no heart, no ear for the diabolisms born in
hotbeds of tyranny and intolerance. No descendant of these — no woman of this ..."
5. Cotton Mather, the Puritan Priest by Barrett Wendell (1891)
"And this at a Time when the Domestic Inhumanities and diabolisms which I am
treated withal, are so Insupport- ..."
6. Cotton Mather, the Puritan Priest by Barrett Wendell (1891)
"And this at a Time when the Domestic Inhumanities and diabolisms which I am
treated withal, are so Insupport- ..."
7. Estimates in Art by Frank Jewett Mather (1916)
"... has attacked the legend and drawn us the picture of an exemplary and hard-working
artist, chiefly mindful of the main chance, and providing diabolisms ..."
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