Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being possessed by a demon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being possessed by a demon or by demons.
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- noun
Possession by ademon or demons.
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Examples
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In “Earth's Holocaust” we get the first result of Hawthorne's insight into the demonianism of reformatory schemers who forget that the centre of every true reform is the heart.
A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876
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In "Earth's Holocaust" we get the first result of Hawthorne's insight into the demonianism of reformatory schemers who forget that the centre of every true reform is the heart.
A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874
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