devil's grip

noun

Pathology.

1. pleurodynia.

Word History and Origins

Origin of devil's grip¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

On Aug. 20, 1949, the Washington Post ran a front-page story with a rather shocking headline: “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil’s Grip.”

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In every account, he said the idea for “The Exorcist” was planted in 1949, when he was a student at the Jesuit-affiliated Georgetown University in Washington and read an account in The Washington Post of an exorcism in suburban Washington under the headline “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil’s Grip.”

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Loosening the Devil’s Grip in Louisiana The Devil is in the entrails in “The Last Exorcism,” an unusually restrained and genuinely eerie little movie perched at the intersection of faith, folklore and female puberty.

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Dominie, 93 either Mr. Dishart wasna weel, or he was in the devil’s grip.”

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This was the pleasant weather I selected for my visit to the "Devil's Grip"—that was the name of the town-land where the house stood; and no bad name either, for, 'faith, if he hadn't his paw on it, it might have gone in law,-like the rest of the property.

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