archidiabolical
English
Etymology
archi- + diabolical
Adjective
archidiabolical (not comparable)
- (rare) Of or relating to an archdevil.
- 1933, Malcolm Cowley, “Trotsky and the Art of Insurrection” in Henry Dan Piper (ed.), Think Back on Us . . . A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930’s by Malcolm Cowley, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967, p. 28,
- Always Trotsky displays that archidiabolical pride which is both his virtue as an individual and his most dangerous quality as a statesman.
- 1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 61, p. 452,
- The goat figure, his satanic majesty, came forward with an archidiabolical dignity […]
- 1933, Malcolm Cowley, “Trotsky and the Art of Insurrection” in Henry Dan Piper (ed.), Think Back on Us . . . A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930’s by Malcolm Cowley, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967, p. 28,