Mephistopheles
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Railroad magnate and speculator Jay Gould was dubbed “the Mephistopheles of Wall Street” by ministers on the pulpit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
In life, however, Höfgen plays Faust, the weak, tempted one, while the part of Mephistopheles is taken by the Nazi state and its functionaries.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2020
Slipak, who had won fame in France for his renditions of the aria of Mephistopheles from the opera “Faust,” adopted the nom-de-guerre Meph.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
While Faust is busy succumbing to the wiles of the devilish Mephistopheles, God up in heaven, surrounded by angels, remains confident that his erring servant will eventually come good.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2016
Mephistopheles, mef-is-tof′e-lēz, n. the name of the devil in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Goethe's Faust.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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