单词 | demonism |
释义 | demonismn. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > doctrine concerning God or a god > [noun] demonism1699 theomonism1906 1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue i. i. 10 Theism..stands in opposition to Dæmonism, and denotes a goodness in God. 1749 Introd. Relig. Study Nature ii. 36 A partial vindication of the frame and government of the universe is not much more than demonism. 1789 T. Jefferson Let. 8 Jan. in Papers (1958) XIV. 420 The comparative merits of atheism and demonism. 1833 Gospel Anchor 30 Mar. 313/2 Sometimes he [sc. God] is represented as an arbitrary tyrant... Atheism, however, is preferable to demonism. b. Belief in or worship of demons. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > belief in devils or demons > [noun] demonomany1597 demonomy1638 diabolism1650 demonism1865 society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > doctrine concerning devil(s) or demons > [noun] demonology1597 diabolism1608 Satanology1857 demonism1865 ponerology1872 pan-Satanism1894 pandiabolism1899 society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of devils, demons, or the Devil devil worship1533 demonomany1597 demon worshipa1638 demonomy1638 diabolism1650 demonolatry1655 devil-worshipping1677 devilism1688 demoniculture1879 demonism1920 1865 Spectator 4 Feb. 130/2 The ridicule of the devil and his imps never penetrated England, demonism never having had any hold upon the masses. 1891 Antidote 5 May 139 A belief in demonism and witchcraft. 1920 A. Perrin Vow of Silence i. 5 He painted lurid pictures of demonism, human sacrifice, and the lowest forms of idolatry. 2002 Eng. Lit. Hist. 69 29 Witches were held responsible for their demonism in a way that the bewitched were not. 2. Actions or behaviour regarded as inhumanly cruel or malevolent; extreme wickedness. ΚΠ 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild ii. ii. in Misc. III. 110 This double Method of cheating the very Tools who are their Instruments to cheat others, is the superlative Degree of Greatness, and is probably, as far as any Spirit crusted over with Clay can carry it, falling very little short of Dæmonism itself. 1841 R. H. Horne Hist. Napoleon I. iii. 22 Robespierre was guillotined... A mere blood-thirsty monster, a high-minded martyr..lashed into demonism by the conflict of wrongs and rights. 1871 W. Whitman Democratic Vistas 72 The wily person in office, scrofulous wealth, the surfeit of prosperity, the demonism of greed, the hell of passion, [etc.]. 1946 A. Ginsberg Let. 18 July in B. Morgan Bk. of Martyrdom & Artifice (2008) 137 There is no coolness, dexterity and savoir faire, but demonism, slavery, and disgust. 1959 K. Tynan Let. 26 June (1994) iv. 241 Ekkehard Schall..plays Hitler, with a ginger moustache and forelock, and a mixture of demonism à la Brando and puppet-farce à la Chaplin. 1988 P. Fussell in Thank God for Atom Bomb (1990) 154 Pastoral—if no longer the poetry, then the body of imagery and emotion associated with it—provides the model world by which the demonism of warfare is measured. 2007 L. H. Steffen Holy War, Just War 105 Human rights abusers exemplify political demonism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1699 |
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