werewolvish

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1. alternativeAlternative form of werewolfish.

   The werewolvish man released Dasher, who yipped and ran to Trixie, cowering behind her.

   1993, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, chapter 17, in The Thread That Binds the Bones, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2016, →ISBN

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   In Europe, there is at least one case of a “werewolf” on record in sixteenth-century Livland. There, the werewolvish activity consisted for the most part of breaking into other people’s cellars at night and drinking any beer found there.

   1983, Walter Burkert, translated by Peter Bing, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 88

   Warren Zevon and the Patrician Homeboys will grace Denver's Rainbow Music Hall with their werewolvish presence this Sunday night.

   1988 November 4, “What's Shakin'...Nov. 4 through Nov. 10”, in The Catalyst, volume 24, number 6, The Colorado College, page 22

   Raised by wolves, employed as a private investigator, he discovered previously that there are werewolvish aliens living hidden within human society, and that he is akin to them.

   2005 January, Don D’Ammassa, “Critical Mass”, in Chronicle: SF, Fantasy & Horror’s Monthly Trade Journal, volume 27, number 1 / 255, →ISSN, page 21, column 2

   On the possible werewolvish significance of the epithet luchthonn, see Kim McCone, ‘Olr. Olc, Luch- and IE *wĺkʷos, *lúkʷos “Wolf”’, Ériu, 36 (1985), 171–6, pp. 175–6.

   2013, Ralph O’Connor, The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel: Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 97

   Cameron could feel no werewolvish urges in his body, no strange desire to stretch and quiver and change.

   2014, Roy Gill, “Pretty Good Year”, in Werewolf Parallel, KelpiesTeen, Floris Books, →ISBN, page 268