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Definition of Succubus
1. Noun. A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men.
Definition of Succubus
1. n. A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.
Definition of Succubus
1. Noun. A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death. ¹
2. Noun. A strumpet, whore or prostitute. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Succubus
1. a female demon [n -BI or -BUSES] - See also: demon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Succubus
Literary usage of Succubus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"Remember— succubus. Have I this meeting wrought with cunning, Which when I come
I find thee ... Do not follow succubus. Once so firm and now so hollow ? ..."
2. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1917)
"An incubus is a part of woman's own desire, a succubus a part of a man's. ...
However, neither an incubus nor a succubus has a mind. There is an emptiness, ..."
3. German Society at the Close of the Middle Ages by Ernest Belfort Bax (1894)
"In the case referred to, the succubus assumed the shape of the man's dead wife,
and lived with him and bore him children, until, one clay, he swore at her, ..."
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