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wolf of hell
a. A person or being having the character of a wolf; one of a cruel, ferocious, or rapacious disposition. In early use applied esp. to the Devil or his agents ( wolf of hell); later most frequently, in allusion to certain biblical passages (e.g. Matthew vii. 15, Acts xx. 29), to enemies or persecutors attacking the ‘flocks’ of the faithful.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > savage person > [noun]
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Turk1536
club-fist1575
scourgemutton1581
wolver1593
vulture1605
savage1609
inhuman1653
brutal1655
Tartar1669
hyena1671
dragoon1712
Huna1744
panther1822
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [noun] > person or being
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tiger?a1513
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to speak bandog and Bedlam1600
vulture1605
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man-tigera1652
Tartar1669
hyena1671
dragoon1712
vampire1741
Huna1744
panther1868
the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > servant of
wolfa900
sergeanta1513
antichristian1531
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > person
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Turk1536
scourgemutton1581
savage1609
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a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 24 Jan. 30 Þu eart deofles wulf.
OE Crist I 256 Hafað se awyrgda wulf tostenced, deor dædscua, dryhten, þin eowde, wide towrecene.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 149 Woluys of helle stranglen hem.
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋694 As seith seint Augustyn, they been the deueles wolues that stranglen the sheepe of Ihesu crist.
c1450 Godstow Reg. 18 (Kalendar, June) Cyryce and Iulytte, kepe us fro þe wulfe.
1497 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) A iij It putteth from us the wulf the deuyll deuourer of mannes soule.
1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 43 The feend the woulfe of hell.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 96 Mon is wulf oðer liun. oðer unicorne.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10636 Ich am wulf [c1300 Otho wolf] & he is gat.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 20935 Paul..Eftirward bicom prechure, Schepe of wlue, meke of felle.c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 515 [A priest] kepte wel his foolde So þt the wolf ne maade it noght myscarye.c1450 Cov. Myst. vii. 102 From þe wulf to saue al shepe of his flok.a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. A.v The wolfe from the dore To wary and to kepe From theyr goostly shepe. 1577 [see sense 10j]. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Oo2 Since such a slye wolfe was entred among them, that could make iustice the cloake of tirannye.1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King Besides what the grimme wolf with privy paw Daily devoures apace.1722 S. Croxall tr. Æsop Fables xlii. 79 If Wolves sometimes creep into the Church in Sheep's Cloathing.1781 W. Cowper Charity 287 Let just restraint..Chain up the wolves and tigers of mankind.1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 32 Why who are these? a wolf within the fold! A pack of wolves!1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 27 What good, honest, generous men at home, will be wolves and foxes on 'change!
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