devility
English
Etymology
devil + -ity
Noun
devility (uncountable)
- The quality of being a devil or like a devil; devilishness.
- 1992, Syed Mohd Amirul Islam, Shanshah Ziaul Huq Maijbhandari:
- Because, according to medical science, as defined in the branch of phychology and pshychiatry, there are four different stages of nervous devility.
- 2010, Charles E. Miller, The Sentence, →ISBN, page 77:
- His eyes a prosecutor's shone through slits, devility stood to twist the rope to my neck, gaunt limb burdened to crink.
- 2013, John O'Loughlin, Ethnic Universality -: The Next Totalitarianism, →ISBN:
- Therefore the falsely masculine cling to the skirts of the Diabolic for fear that they should be obliged to come to terms, one way or another, with God's just retribution, whereas the genuinely masculine, who are still fearful of God and therefore theoretically faithful unto the possibility of godliness, remain open to the possibility of light as the redemption of heat and master of motion, remain open, in short, to the possibility of God and of divine deliverance from the world and all that would deny such deliverance in favour of that false relationship between Man and the Devil, antihumanity and devility, which far from conjoining pluralism with monism bespeaks a double pluralism the only outcome of which is the denial of monism on both phenomenal and, especially, noumenal terms.
- 2015, Jerome Strong, Luminaria: New and Selected Poems, →ISBN, page 68:
- Think of love in all the wrong places then surmise his wont to copulate Caustic, green with envy the stevedore of a young man blest of God who precociously managed skills of life with sports-like agility ergo, the planned deception of outright lies spawned in darkest devility.
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