diabolismn.

1608 T. James Apol. Wickliffe 66 [He] taught..[that] there was an equalitie of al men, and communion of al things, which is pure Anabaptisme, or Diabolisme rather.

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iv. 1 Delusion, Fanaticism, Enthusiasm, Quakerism, Diabolism.

1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 24 What do we see in the vast territories of Popery, but a perfect Diabolism in the place of the religion of our Lord?

1801 C. Lucas Infernal Quixote I. xv. 224 As the grand principle of the whole seems to be the same with the Infernal Spirits,..a general name for their [sc. modern philosophers'] wonderful science may be also termed Diabolism.

1846 Evangelical Repository (Philadelphia) July 94 It is hoped, we do not sin against charity and the brotherhood, by pronouncing this doctrine to be unmitigated diabolism.

1918 Mod. Philol. 16 67 This philosophy..Lucas stigmatizes as a species of diabolism because of its affinity with the spirit of Satan.

1957 Furrow 8 387 The doctrines of white supremacy, Nordic ascendancy and superiority and kindred evils are diabolisms of the worst kind.

1996 K. Ilaiah Why I am not Hindu v. 74 How is it that the source of education is herself an illiterate woman? This is diabolism of the highest order.

1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede 286 Diabolisme or symbolizing with infernall spirits.

1763 W. Warburton Doctr. Grace II. 238 The Farce of Diabolisms and exorcisms.

1855 E. Rich in E. Smedley et al. Occult Sci. 82 Any compact savouring of diabolism.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxi. 24 Ephesus was the head-quarters of diabolism and sorcery.

1935 G. K. Chesterton Scandal of Father Brown viii. 243 Perhaps he's dabbled in a little diabolism in these secret societies.

1957 M. Spark Comforters viii. 181 Diabolism is practised: I can prove it to you if you care to accompany me to Notting Hill Gate on certain nights.

2015 R. Kieckhefer in H. Parish Superstition & Magic in Early Mod. Europe vi. 144 When we hear accusations of diabolism (involving the witches' Sabbath and related phenomena), the voices we are hearing seem to be those of a theologically informed elite.

1650 Andrewes's Pattern Catechistical Doctr. (new ed.) v. 22 Lastly, Diabolisme. After that the Devil..brought himself..first into admiration, and then even to adoration, causing the people to worship him as a god.

1739 T. Morgan Moral Philosopher II. vii. 214 Herein they [sc. the Jews] worshipped the Devil more effectually than ever the Persians did. But I hope this Writer in Defence of Judaism will not justify Diabolism.

1822 C. Lamb Let. 11 Sept. (1935) II. 332 I do not know whether diabolism is a part of your creed.

1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 4 Putting aside the terrors of diabolism, which are engrained in the native African mind.

1916 M. Beerbohm Enoch Soames in Century May 6 ‘It was Milton,’ he certificatively added, ‘who converted me to Diabolism.’

1989 Times 5 Aug. (Review section) 35/3 Tournier is fascinated by the almost alchemical transmutation of pity to cruelty, piety to diabolism.

2008 Financial Times 11 Dec. 12/6 Anyone here worship the devil? We'll be doing diabolism next term.

1660 Remonstr. Robert Oxwicke & Company 5 Not contented with the spoyle and depradation they had Committed on the goods and interests of the Innocent English, they afterwards proceeded to extend and exercise their Diabolismes and Infernall Cruelties on their Persons also.

1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 18 Speculativ Infidelitie, practicous Atheism, horrid Blasphemies, and all manner of Diabolism.

1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland xxxi. 298 To suppose that a set of people should conspire to run the risque of being hanged and gibbeted, for the mere pleasure of doing mischief to their neighbours, would argue a degree of diabolism, not to be found in the human heart.

1793 ‘A. Pasquin’ Life Late Earl of Barrymore 45 Upon this unerring testimony of the diabolism, savageness, and enormity of the cook and his family, the senate ordered the doors and windows of the house to be chained and barred.

1826 Gentleman's Mag. 96 i. Suppl. 636/1 The mob are stimulated by harangues to new acts of diabolism.

1869 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 368 The human instincts demand the supposition of one [sc. a Devil], to account for the diabolisms there perpetrated.

1902 Daily Chron. 3 Oct. 3/4 Where Mr. Hichens's familiar ‘diabolism’ enters the game is in his treatment of the ‘sick unrest of modern life’.

1992 P. Kamuf tr. J. Derrida Given Time I. 165 The narrator does not reproach his friend for meanness or diabolism..which consists in doing deliberately, consciously, evil for evil's sake.

2013 Gulf Times (Nexis) 17 Sept. The Delhi rape case has been discussed not only inside India but internationally because of its brutality, diabolism, cruelty, shamelessness and ferocity.

1754 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild (new ed.) i. i. 4 Only enough [goodness] to make him Partaker of the Imperfection of Humanity, instead of the Perfection of Diabolism [1743 Dæmonism].

1778 W. Cookworthy & T. Hartley in tr. E. Swedenborg Treat. Heaven & Hell Pref. p. xlviii Now the very idea of diabolism carries in it a repugnance and hatred to God and goodness.

1838 Blackwood's Mag. June 770/1 The brutal vulgar ruffian, who makes as close an approach to pure diabolism as the imperfect faculties of human nature will permit.

1876 Phrenol. Jrnl. Nov. 359/2 That which I have esteemed holy has become profane. What I have regarded as the essence of diabolism, draws me by the strong attraction of a purer, more exalted good.

1979 Shakespeare Stud. 1 Jan. 182 The South was diabolism incarnate to English striplings on their Grand Tours.

1998 J. Irving Widow for One Year 102 Ted was chased..by Mrs. Vaughn, who was brandishing a serrated bread knife while shrieking at him that he was ‘the epitome of diabolism’.