Meanings of demoniacal possession in English

Jesus believed in demoniacal possession, casting out devils on several occasions.

Had she some fantastic idea of demoniacal possession?

One is almost tempted to believe that demoniacal possession is not wholly a thing of the past.

The worst fox is the Ninko or Hito-kitsune (Man-fox): this is especially the fox of demoniacal possession.

The test applied to the largest class of miracles, connected with demoniacal possession, discloses the falsity of all miraculous pretension.

That God dispenses both health and disease is a very different belief from that involved in " demoniacal possession."

A jealousy so overpowering that nothing could make itself heard against it was closing upon her like a demoniacal possession.

Delivered by Christ from that mysterious demoniacal possession, she cleaves to Him, like a true woman, with all her heart.

The man speaking had himself graven the terrors of it on his inmost nature through many a week of demoniacal possession.

As to whether it was leprosy, the spotted plague, or acute demoniacal possession, the degraded Shen Heng maintains an unworthy silence.

But the question is pertinent: By what right do we allege that demoniacal possession is an exploded figment and an impossibility?

Believing, as he did, in the actuality of Satan, the theory of demoniacal possession came easy as the explanation of abnormal qualities.

The miraculous cure of demoniacal possession presents, I need hardly say, less physical difficulty than any other cure performed by our Lord.

We have Christ's authority for regarding the woman's infirmity as the result of demoniacal possession, but the case presents some singular features.

The idea that a personal impulse or emotion might be more than individual, except through demoniacal possession, still seems to old-fashioned orthodoxy a monstrous heresy.

We no longer think of insanity as demoniacal possession, and we no longer immure people with diseased brains in the secluded apartments of lovely houses.