demonicalness

The great city called Sodom and Egypt [ch. xi. 8]. On the one hand, sensuality carried to a pitch directly contrary to nature; on the other, worship of the dead, asceticism and sorcery; carnality and demonicalness—the one aiding the other, and both forming the sign of the city of destruction.

1866, John Peter Lange, translated by Evelina Moore, “Human Ordinances, Affairs, and Relations”, in Philip Schaff, editor, The Revelation of John (A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures […]; volume X of the New Testament), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, […], →OCLC, 1st division (General Introduction), § 6 (The Formal Elements of Apocalyptics, or Their Symbolical Figures. […]), page 31

I was like that, not in a state of fury but of sadness, when your letter arrived. I began to read it, with the pleasure one feels on hearing oneself attacked by somebody one likes. But when I reached the passage about the ‘sadism’ and ‘demonicalness’ of my persecution of you, my chagrin couldn’t hold out, and gaiety broke through.

1983, Robert de Montesquiou, translated by Terence Kilmartin, “From Robert de Montesquiou, around 8 July 1915”, in Philip Kolb, editor, Marcel Proust, Selected Letters, volume 3 (1910–1917), London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, pages 317–318