1847 W. H. Anderdon End of Year & of All Things vi. 65 We have spoken of the unceasing blasphemies against Almighty God..the demonizing of human souls from the companionship of devils [etc.].

1893 Esoteric May 498 Adulteration of spheres, and demonizing of souls is thus made possible.

1936 W. Faulkner Absalom, Absalom viii. 280 That best of ratiocination which after all was a good deal like Sutpen's morality and Miss Coldfield's demonizing.

1995 Newsweek 8 May 44/2 Now, finally, we're beginning to take a hard look at our whole Vulture Culture—the endless shouting and demonizing that doesn't necessarily lead to violence but coarsens and worsens us all.

2011 Church Times 7 Oct. 28/2 She seeks to identify, expose, and denounce the complex of pernicious ideas that underpin the cult of slimness, the dieting industry, the demonising of female desire, and the marginalisation of fat people.

1809 Belfast Monthly Mag. 31 Mar. 161/1 The sum of human happiness would be much more increased by mutual acts of kindness..than by the demonizing plan of mutual hostilities.

1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia (ed. 2) xi. 90 The human form sinks away towards brutal deformity, or is changed into the figure of demonizing passions.

1897 What say Script. about Spiritism? 64 [They] exhort others..to go ‘on to a higher plane of harmony’ with lying, seducing, enslaving and demonizing spirits.

1905 J. S. McLain Alaska & Klondike xiii. 279 I do not mean to assume that they would not have obtained liquor.., or would not have learned to manufacture the demonising substitutes.

1999 E. J. Allman Jacobean Revenge Trag. i. 31 The demonizing word sodomy is avoided.

2006 E. Bidinger Ethics of Working-class Autobiogr. iv. 140 A demonizing representation of someone..signals a fundamental dishonesty at work.