demonology
Americannoun
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the study of demons or of beliefs about demons.
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belief in demons.
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a group of persons or things regarded as evil or pernicious.
noun
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Also called: demonism. the study of demons or demonic beliefs
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a set of people or things that are disliked or held in low esteem
the place occupied by Hitler in contemporary demonology
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Origin of demonology
Example Sentences
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This is when Mortensen began to produce his best and strangest work, the "Pictorial History of Witchcraft and Demonology."
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2014
And the Fetishism, Ancestor-worship, Hero-worship, and Demonology of primitive savages are all, I believe, different manners of expression of their belief in ghosts, and of the anthropomorphic interpretation of out-of-the-way events which is its concomitant.
From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.
He toured through the West, lecturing on Demonology, and the great Englishmen he knew.
From Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town by Goolrick, John T.
The story is referred to by Sir W. Scott in his Demonology and Witchcraft.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James
Notable enough," says Carlyle, "wilt thou find the potency of Names; Witchcraft, and all manner of Spectre-work and Demonology, we have now named Madness, and Diseases of the Nerves.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.
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