demonism

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “It is very much to be doubted if Mervyn Hogarth had ever in his life given more than a passing thought to any black art or occult science. Certainly he was innocent of prolonged interest in, let alone any practice of, diabolism, witchcraft, demonism, or such cult.”

2. isim The quality of being demonic.

   “1915, Henry James, letter to Evan Charteris dated 22 January, 1915 in Percy Lubbock (ed.), The Letters of Henry James, London: Macmillan, Volume 2, p. 453, What a pitiful horror indeed must that Ypres desolation and desecration be—a baseness of demonism.”

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

   “All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.”