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Meanings of malevolent spirit in English

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Usage of malevolent spirit in English
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It's a spirit, a malevolent spirit and it's determined to wreck my play.
Tell me, pretty maiden
2
His past is like malevolent spirit...draining all happiness from his heart.'
The half life of stars: a novel
3
In their culture, a man dressed as a stag is a malevolent spirit.'
Bryant & may on the loose: a peculiar crimes unit mystery
4
Maybe I was starting to believe that a malevolent spirit might just be responsible.
Tell me, pretty maiden
5
This was not the outburst of a single malevolent spirit.
George Washington, Volume II
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But even all this does not appease his malevolent spirit.
The Lone Ranche
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Is it bed bugs, or a malevolent spirit set to mess with his life?
The Guardian
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The first thirty-six hours were the most critical for a malevolent spirit to enter a corpse.
Dhampir
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The Dalai Lama discourages the practice, advising his followers that Dorje Shugden is a malevolent spirit.
Reuters
10
Even the tempest, the demon, or a malevolent spirit might bear her away on unbridled wings.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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While behind him, shadowing his every speculation, Hermione haunts his words like the malevolent spirit of parody.
The Guardian
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But he had not reckoned on the spell which the malevolent spirit of Lentulus had cast over the assembly.
A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
13
Some malevolent spirit seemed abroad in the air, that rendered abortive every effort of the gentler divinities to send succor.
Locusts and Wild Honey
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As a moral, it preaches against the malevolent spirit of prediction; for as certainly as a man predicts ill, he becomes inclined to wish it.
The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of ...
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But 99 percent of the time, he said, investigations don't deal with malevolent spirits.
Wired
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Bullies and abusing husbands lived inside their victims' consciousness, possessing them like malevolent spirits.
Death Mask
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Malevolent spirit across language varieties
United Kingdom
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