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Meanings of diabolic in inglês

Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell.

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      1
      The gulf is the difference between the angelic and the diabolic temperament.
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      2
      For hundreds of years this idea of diabolic possession was steadily developed.
      History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
      3
      When it was finished, he told himself, the portrait would be diabolic.
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      4
      Understand, I do not say that it was not spiritual or diabolic.
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      5
      Divine visions are effected by representations in heaven; diabolic by magic in hell.
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      6
      Second, we need to understand that fear is a diabolic force.
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      7
      Blind chance, it was rumoured, ruled all things; or perhaps a diabolic intelligence.
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      8
      In 1766 Father Sterzinger attacked the very groundwork of the whole diabolic theory.
      History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
      9
      These latter were diabolic in the celerity with which they picked out meanings.
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      10
      Your printers are the worst species of that diabolic genus I know of.
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      11
      A voice was singing with diabolic satisfaction in the captain's brain:
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      12
      Followed a battery of merciless questions punctuated by the diabolic clank of metal.
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      13
      Yet more fearful to disclose the secret and unloose such a diabolic power.
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      14
      For all I know, the expression of these last may be perfectly diabolic.
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      15
      Everybody watched with wonder this play, as of some large and diabolic toy.
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      16
      Her smile, that diabolic expression I so adored, lighted her lips.
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