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Meanings of the Tempter in English

Portuguese
satanás
Catalan
satan
Spanish
diablo

(Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell.

      satanás
      Usage of the Tempter in English
      1
      Let us go home, my friends, and wrestle in prayer against the Tempter.
      Tales and Sketches / Part 3 from Volume V of The Works of John G...
      2
      To buy Dr. Faustus's eternal damnation cost the Tempter the essential knowledge of mankind.
      The new yorker
      3
      But just in that happy moment the Tempter gets in.
      The Amateur Garden
      4
      That way, whispered the Tempter, was too straight and simple.
      The Snare
      5
      Death, the Tempter, pointed homeward, to the grave of her dead parents in Combe-Raven churchyard.
      No Name
      6
      In the evening the Tempter's voice is heard:
      Three Men on the Bummel
      7
      But then the Tempter overreached himself, for he whispered: And the voice would be always Jane's.
      The Rosary
      8
      Death, the Tempter, was busy at her heart.
      No Name
      9
      Flown with the Tempter;-lifehave been preserved,-
      The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19,...
      10
      No shock of horror chilled me; no remembrance of a voluntary assent to the Tempter could I recall.
      The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 / A Maga...
      11
      He indignantly told the Tempter that he was content to do things in the good old fashioned way.
      Babbitt
      12
      And like the occult Master that He was, He summoned His Inner Forces and beat off the Tempter.
      Mystic Christianity; Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master
      13
      Through the baits the Tempter brought
      Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
      14
      A name, more fearful than a thunderclap, burst despairingly from the lips of the Tempter, and he disappeared.
      Sintram and His Companions
      15
      I try to skwush the Tempter's voice 'at urges me within;
      McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896
      16
      For the Tempter had come into this Eden, and soon his foul whisper found place in her heart.
      Violets and Other Tales
      Translations for the Tempter