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  • noun Plural form of satan.

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Examples

  • Just remember, your satans are your gods… Always and forever:

    Firedoglake » Speaking of Roosting Chickens… 2006

  • Those who are in this hell are generally called satans; those in the former, devils; and such of them as do not act in a clandestine way there do not disown their name.

    Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • "All hell consists of such persons, who are there called satans and devils; satans, if they have confirmed themselves in favor of nature to the denial of God, and devils, if they have lived wickedly, and thereby rejected all acknowledgement of God from their hearts; but I will lead you to the _gymnasia_, which are in the south-west, where such persons dwell, having not yet departed to their infernal abodes."

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • Those who are evil from the understanding dwell in the front in hell, and are called satans, but those who are in evil from the will, dwell to the back and are called devils, 492.

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • With those wicked ones, and also those adulterers, who are called satans, the understanding is the principal agent; but with those who are called devils, the will is the principal agent.

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • Those who are in evil from the understanding dwell there in front and are called satans, but those who are in evil from the will dwell to the back and are called devils, 492.

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • In the latter world all are in general distinguished according to the evils which originate in the will and in the understanding, and which are accepted and appropriated; they are also separated in hell according to those evils: those who are in evil from the understanding, dwell there in front, and are called satans; but those who are in evil from the will, dwell at the back, and are called devils.

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • -- They are called satans who have confirmed themselves in favor of nature to the denial of God, 380.

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • Usually, they have a brother or a cousin in Europe or Canada to look after their business interests and keep a channel open to small and big "satans" in case the regime falls.

    Who Are Iran's Revolutionary Guards? 2007

  • The "satans" have in part coalesced with the jinn; see Lane's _Arabian Nights_, "Notes to the

    Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

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