Antonyms for diabolism
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dahy-ab-uh-liz-uh m |
| Phonetic Transcription : daɪˈæb əˌlɪz əm |
Definition of diabolism
Origin :- c.1600s, from Ecclesiastical Greek diabolos "devil" (see devil (n.)) + -ism.
- As in magic : noun supernatural power; appearance
- As in black magic : noun witchcraft or sorcery
- As in peccancy : noun evil
- As in prestidigitation : noun magic
- As in thaumaturgy : noun magic
- As in theurgy : noun magic
- As in evil : noun badness, immorality; disaster
- A wizard was understandable; but this was diabolism beyond sanity.
- Extract from : « The Hour of the Dragon » by Robert E. Howard
- Here were signs of grace on one side, and diabolism on the other.
- Extract from : « A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. » by William Chauncey Bartlett
- It is merely the diabolism of instinct that prompts the young to believe that the race is all.
- Extract from : « Ancestors » by Gertrude Atherton
- Diabolism seemed to be a cheerful, even a wholesome, influence in his life.
- Extract from : « Seven Men » by Max Beerbohm
- It has troubled me, said Herring, but helped me, to hear that Frye was a channel for that diabolism.
- Extract from : « The Religio-Medical Masquerade » by Frederick William Peabody
- As a result of the night's diabolism ten dead bodies were brought on deck in the morning.
- Extract from : « A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County Volume II » by Stephen M. Ostrander
- Under any theocratic government law and punishment would become the types of diabolism.
- Extract from : « Demonology and Devil-lore » by Moncure Daniel Conway
- It was by a true experience that the ancients so generally took nocturnal animals to be types of diabolism.
- Extract from : « Demonology and Devil-lore » by Moncure Daniel Conway
- But train-wrecking must always be the result of the purest malice,—of diabolism unalloyed.
- Extract from : « The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 » by Various
- Strange that a devil has to break down a door like a common man; but after all, his strength itself is a diabolism.'
- Extract from : « The Devil in Iron » by Robert E. Howard
Synonyms for diabolism
- abracadabra
- affliction
- alchemy
- allurement
- astrology
- augury
- baseness
- bewitchment
- black art
- blow
- calamity
- catastrophe
- conjuration
- conjuring
- conjury
- corruption
- crime
- criminality
- curse
- debauchery
- demon worship
- demonianism
- depravity
- devilry
- diablerie
- diabolism
- divination
- enchantment
- exorcism
- fascination
- foreboding
- fortune-telling
- harm
- hatred
- heinousness
- hocuspocus
- horoscopy
- hurt
- ill
- illusion
- impiety
- incantation
- indecency
- infamy
- iniquity
- injury
- knavery
- legerdemain
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- looseness
- magic
- magnetism
- malevolence
- malignity
- meanness
- mischief
- misery
- misfortune
- mysticism
- necromancy
- obscenity
- occultism
- of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra
- outrage
- pain
- perversity
- power
- prediction
- presage
- prestidigitation
- prophecy
- ruin
- rune
- satanism
- sin
- sinfulness
- sleight of hand
- soothsaying
- sorcery
- sorrow
- sortilege
- spell
- suffering
- superstition
- taboo
- thaumaturgy
- theurgy
- trickery
- turpitude
- vice
- viciousness
- vileness
- villainy
- voodoo
- voodooism
- wickedness
- witchcraft
- witchery
- witching
- wizardry
- woe
- wrong
- wrongdoing
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