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Definition of Afreets
1. afreet [n] - See also: afreet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Afreets
Literary usage of Afreets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Marvellous Country: Or, Three Years in Arizona and New Mexico by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens (1875)
"... but almost fancied that it had been fashioned from pure white marble by the
afreets in a single night, and placed in our camp that it might serve as a ..."
2. Parnassus in Pillory: A Satire by Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne (1851)
"afreets, according to eastern superstition, are evil spirits haunting desert
places; once angels, but condemned to suffer for their neglect of high duties. ..."
3. Florida Trails as Seen from Jacksonville to Key West and from November to by Winthrop Packard (1910)
"Benevolent afreets frequent The Garden and the jungle path at all points. ...
Here the mantle has become a wicker-basket wheel-chair, but the afreets are in ..."
4. The Supernatural in Romantic Fiction by Edward Yardley (1880)
"afreets and Divs are male and evil. Peris are female and good. The Jinn were
created of fire thousands of years before Adam, and were ruled by a succession ..."
5. The Egyptian Sketch Book by Charles Godfrey Leland (1874)
"I was pleased with the idea that meteors were arrows shot by the angels who defend
the throne of Allah against the rebellious afreets, and asked him if ..."
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