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Meanings of demon in English

Portuguese
ogro
Catalan
fera
Spanish
diablo

An evil supernatural being.

      ogro
      Usage of demon in English
      1
      The malicious demon concealed in the ink bottle delights in wrecking love.
      The Spinster Book
      2
      It turns man into an animal; it makes him the demon incarnate.
      The Canadian Elocutionist / Designed for the Use of Colleges, Sc...
      3
      Yet in the society of this person the demon troubled me not.
      Zanoni
      4
      There was no such thing as halting the demon in the car.
      The Furnace of Gold
      5
      The ghoul or fiend of modern society is the demon of alcohol.
      Alvira: The Heroine of Vesuvius
      6
      Filetus receives the cloak, and the droll little demon departs in tears.
      Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
      7
      Now the demon of pride entered into the soul of the fool.
      In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
      8
      Creeping eastward along a bad shore, in the teeth of the demon.
      1492
      9
      All night long, the archangel combated with the demon in his soul.
      The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction
      10
      But that demon at length came in the shape of Gaut Gurley.
      Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life
      11
      The idol of a savage is a demon that delights in carnage.
      Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
      12
      I was ten that year, and thin as Scratch-the-demon, about ninety pounds.
      Night Shift
      13
      He took a green branch of the tree and beat the demon.
      Philippine Folk-Tales
      14
      The Daimons were far more powerful than all of the demon's kind.
      No mercy
      15
      Dilated against the flaming sky, the proportions of the demon seemed gigantic.
      Windsor Castle
      16
      A terrible laugh broke from the demon, and the vision faded away.
      Windsor Castle
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      United States of America
      Common
      United Kingdom
      Common
      Ireland
      Less common