demonessn.
/ˌdiːməˈnɛs/, U.S. /ˌdiməˈnɛs/, /ˈdimənəs/ A female demon; (in extended use) a cruel or wicked woman.
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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > wicked person > woman
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society > morality > moral evil > [noun] > place of evil > quality of being hellish > thing or person > woman
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a1638 J. Mede Apostasy Latter Times (1641) 31 The Sichemites..had a Goddesse or Dæmonesse under the name of Jephta's daughter.
1681 W. Lawrence Right of Primogeniture i. 44 They worshipped four Goddesses or Dæmonesses of purpose to præside and give their Benediction to these Ceremonies.
1753 Mem. Fidelio & Harriot xv. 189 Over these fiends of the infernal pit, presides an hellish demoness.
1792 R. Bage Man as he Is IV. cxii. 195 By what sort of dæmon you are possessed, I cannot tell. It may perhaps be a dæmoness, though you deny her power.
1856 Titan Mag. Aug. 190/2 That smiling demoness, his mother.
1879 M. D. Conway Demonol. I. ii. iv. 117 A demoness who sometimes appears just before the floods.
1900 Weekly Standard & Express 16 June 4/7 The Empress of China, who is a veritable demoness.
2005 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 28 Aug. (Mag.) 6 Legend has it that the marriage of Buddha's emissary, a monkey king, and a demoness gave birth to the first Tibetans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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