demon

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Such laborious analysis as his despatches display, such grasp both of outline and detail, such absence of confusion and clearness of vision, such lack of hesitance and such definition of plan, seem to prove that either a hero or a demon is again on earth.

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  1. noun An evil supernatural being; a devil.
  2. noun A persistently tormenting person, force, or passion: the demon of drug addiction.
  3. noun One who is extremely zealous, skillful, or diligent: worked away like a demon; a real demon at math.
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  • "I don't even know whether I'm supposed to beat a demon, or the demon is supposed to beat me," I complained. —  Question Quest
  • As with all good fantasy, the mythology is basic to the story; in fact, one of the major characters is Zhu Irzh, a demon from the Chinese hell, on loan as a vice detective to the police force of Singapore 3 As this book begins, Zhu Irzh investigates the murder of a young woman in a bad section of town. —  Magazine - Asimov's Science Fiction - 2007 - Issue 02 - February
  • The glyph smoked and twisted; I felt reality tearing and shifting around us until the demon was the only solid thing. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
  • So she recognizes him as a demon, and what kind of demon, too. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
  • Japhrimel had omitted to tell me far more than Jace had, but I only felt a weary gratefulness that the demon was here—a gratefulness I didn't want to examine more closely. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin daemōn, from Latin, spirit, from Greek daimōn, divine power; see dā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also, in L. spelling, dæmon; = Dutch demon = G. Swedish dämon = Danish dæman = Old French demon, French démon (cf. Provencal demoni = Spanish Portuguese Italian demonio, from Late Latin dæmonium, from Greek δαιμόνιον, diminutive), from Latin dæmon, a spirit, genius, lar, ecclesiastical an evil spirit, from Greek δαίμων (δαίμον-), a god or goddess, deity, a tutelary deity, a genius, lar, a god of lower rank, later also a departed soul, a ghost, in N. T. and ecclesiastical an evil spirit; of uncertain origin: (1) by some identified with δαήμων, knowing (which is also found, perhaps by error, in the form δαίμων), from δαῆναι, learn, teach, akin to διδάοκειν, teach, Latin docere, teach (see didactic and docile, doctrine); (2) by some derived, with formative -μων, as ‘the distributer of destinies,’ from δαίειν, divide, distribute; (3) by some regarded as for orig. *δαιFμων, from *δαιF-, δαιF-, as in *διFος, διος, heavenly, Latin divus, divinus, divine, deus, god, deita(t-)s, deity, etc.: see deity.
 

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