succubus

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A succubus is a demon who takes the form of a beautiful woman to seduce men (especially monks) in dreams to have ...

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  1. noun A female demon supposed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with a man while he sleeps.
  2. noun An evil spirit; a demon.

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  • Become a succubus, seduce a man, get some seed, become an incubus, impregnate a woman.... Same old thing, night after night, century after century.... Sometimes I wish -- well, why don't people ever want to dream a good game of whist Cards? —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 05 - May 1999
  • "Perhaps not a s-succubus after all, sir," he offered timidly. —  Teresa Medeiros - Thief of Hearts
  • Now she stood on the precipice of darkness like a succubus sent from Hell to lure him over the final black abyss He ran down the damp and muddy steps, expecting her to dissolve into the night like a spirit. —  New Page 1
  • [3] He finds that in couples of this kind there is usually an incubus and a succubus, the one who suggests the crime, the other on whom the suggestion works until he or she becomes the accomplice or instrument of the stronger will; "the one playing the Mephistophelian part of tempter, preaching evil, urging to crime, the other allowing himself to be overcome by his evil genius." —  A Book of Remarkable Criminals
  • "I am a succubus, on the prowl for business Uh-oh," Chester said. —  Golem in the Gears
 

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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin, alteration (influenced by Late Latin incubus, incubus) of Latin succuba, paramour, from succubāre, to lie under : sub-, sub- + cubāre, to lie down.

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  1. from Middle Latin succubus, a masculine form of Latin succuba, regarded as feminine only: see succuba. Cf. incubus.
 

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/ˈsəkjubəs/
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