Meanings
- rareuncountableThe quality of being demoniacal.
The mythical language depicts in terms of the material the agonies of hell we experience when we succumb to hatred; […] the demoniacalness of jealousy and the proud intoxication of godliness, which goes before a fall.
1966, Herbert V[ighnāntaka] Guenther, “Different Types of Man”, in Tibetan Buddhism Without Mystification: The Buddhist Way from Original Tibetan Sources, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →OCLC, page 172 more examples
Halpin [Frayser]’s death and the post-mortem demoniacalness of the well-bred Southern woman, lops off the grafted branches of the human and cuts it down to that stump of itself which is primordial, persistent, unconscious animalism.
1918, The Stratford Monthly: An International Magazine, Boston, Mass.: Stratford Company, →OCLC, page 44Robert E. Lee and J. E. B. Stuart, who captured him, knew well his deeds in Kansas. His judges weighed the outward spirituality of his words against the demoniacalness of his deeds and condemned him. They were not deceived!
1949 August 2, Samuel H. Miller, “[The Forum] Shame! Shame!”, in The Evening Sun, 7 star edition, volume 79, number 93, Baltimore, Md.: A. S. Abell Company, published 4 August 1949, →OCLC, page 27, column 4Synonyms: demoniacality, demonicality, demonicalness, demonicity, demonicness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being demoniacal.
Origin
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