demonism

demonism englannista suomeksi

1. satanismi

0. Substantiivi

demonism englanniksi

1. Belief in, or worship of demons or devils.

2. 1699, (w), ''Of Virtue, and the Belief of a Deity'', in ''An Inquiry Concerning Virtue in Two Discourses'', London: A. Bell ''et al.'', p.(nbs)10,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59472.0001.001

(..) if he believes more of the prevalency of an ill designing Principle than of a good one, he is then more a ''Daemonist'' than he is a Theist, and may be called a Daemonist from the side to which the balance most inclines. ¶ All these sorts both of Daemonism, Polytheism, Atheism, and Theism, may be mixed (..)

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1957|author=Muriel Spark|title=The Comforters|location=New York|publisher=Avon|year_published=1965|section=Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 171|url=https://archive.org/details/comforters00spar/page/n5

4. The quality of being demonic.

5. 1915, (w), letter to (w) dated 22(nbs)January, 1915 in (w) (ed.), ''The Letters of Henry James'', London: Macmillan, Volume 2, p.(nbs)453,https://archive.org/details/lettersselecteda02jameuoft

What a pitiful horror indeed must that (w) desolation and desecration be—a baseness of demonism.

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8. An act or event attributed to demons or devils; an evil act.

9. (RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)

10. (quote-book)|chapter=Chinatown Revisited|title=Out and About: A Note-Book of London in War-Time|location=London|publisher=George Allen & Unwin|page=47|url=https://archive.org/details/outaboutnotebook00burkiala

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