diaboloniann.adj.
/ˌdʌɪəbəˈləʊnɪən/, /dʌɪˌabəˈləʊnɪən/, U.S. /ˌdaɪəbəˈloʊniən/, /daɪˌæbəˈloʊniən/ A. n.
In Bunyan's Holy War: a member of the host of Diabolus (the Devil) in his assault upon Mansoul. More generally: a disciple or worshipper of the Devil; an apostate.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of devils, demons, or the Devil > practitioner of
Satanist1559
demoniacal1565
demonist1610
Belialist1617
Apollyonist1627
demonomist1638
Satanite1675
diabolonian1682
draconist1684
demoniast1726
devil-worshipper1790
demonolater1850
thelemite1973
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War To Rdr. sig. A3 When the Diabolonians were caught.
1738 H. Heugh Let. to Ebenezer Erskine 17 When he was stripped and examined, he proved to be a great Diabolonian.
1775 J. W. Fletcher Last Check Antinomianism xi. 134 Jericho.., that accursed city of refuge for spiritual Canaanites and Diabolonians.
1866 Sword & Trowel July 328 Till..every corner of the town of Mansoul is clean rid of the Diabolonians who lurk therein.
1894 E. Eggleston in Harper's New Monthly Mag. Feb. 469/1 Vile diabolonians all of them.
1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans p. xxv William Blake was..an avowed Diabolonian: he called his angels devils and his devils angels.
1956 J. T. Shipley Guide to Great Plays 685 Dick Dudgeon has declared himself a diabolonian, and has been content to be an outcast from these over-righteous townsfolk.
2004 B. Lynch John Bunyan & Lang. Conviction v. 149 Pinioned and chained as traitors, the Diabolonians are indicted individually by the name and crime which identifies their nature.
B. adj.
Originally: of, belonging to, or relating to Diabolus (see sense A.) or his followers. More generally: that is a disciple or worshipper of the Devil; of, relating to, or consisting of disciples of the Devil.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [adjective]
forraughtc1175
renayedc1380
apostate1382
apostasied1393
relapse?a1425
departed1439
renegate1488
retractive1509
apostatical1532
shrinking1535
apostatatec1540
runagate1558
apostatic1583
apostatous1588
collapsed1609
renegado1612
recreant1613
apotactical1615
apostatized1629
apostating1630
lapsed1638
apostated1642
apostatizing1652
renegade1664
diabolonian1682
backsliding1816
relapsing1864
backslidden1871
society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [adjective] > of devils, demons, or the Devil
diabolonian1682
demonolatric1816
demonolatrical1816
demonolatrous1818
Satanistic1850
Satanist1895
thelemic1951
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 386 The bold Villain..lurks in the Diabolonian dens a days, and haunts like a Ghost honest mens houses a nights. View more context for this quotation
1772 R. Hill Rev. Doctr. J. Wesley 117 He is unwilling to be ranked by old Bunyan..among the Diabolonian armies.
1834 Apostolic Advocate 1 Sept. 91 The soldiers of the faith will ultimately carry all these bastiles of the human mind, and put all their diabolonian garrisons to flight!
1895 Pall Mall Mag. Apr. 563 Close to the bridge over the chasm may be seen what look like the foundations of a more ancient structure, which are attributed to diabolonian industry.
1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans p. xxiv The Diabolonian position is new to the London playgoer of today, but not to lovers of serious literature.
1978 Shaw Rev. 21 65 Dick's pose as the diabolonian cynic had been his way of confronting a value system in terms of which he as a person was worthless.
2007 N. E. Hultgren Distance Overcome (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Virginia) iv. 160 He [sc. Shaw] manipulated the genre in order to introduce the audience to the ‘Diabolonian’ hero based on Nietzsche's Superman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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