diablerie
noun
diabolic magic or art; sorcery; witchcraft.
diableries
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pluralof diablerie.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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By what may or may not be coincidence, their admirably precise diableries are also gentler, more conventional, more philosophical, more ethereal than their American counterparts'.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is one more diabolical picture in our budget, engraved by Mr. Thompson, the same dexterous artist who has rendered the former diableries so well.
From George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray
What if no more are the grisettes of Paul de Kock and Murger to fascinate the eye with wistful diableries?
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
I perceive that many amateur American Al-Raschids are abroad in the land, pockets echoing the tintinnabulation of manifold marks and eyes abulge at the prospect of midnight diableries.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
He cannot be unreal—the "convincingness" of his most sordid as of his most splendid passages; of his most fantastic diableries as of his most everyday studies of society; is unsurpassed.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
