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Definition of Diabolizing
1. diabolize [v] - See also: diabolize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diabolizing
Literary usage of Diabolizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Dorset Record Society, Ohio Civil War Centennial Commission, Ohio Historical Society (1896)
"1991- diabolizing; for gigantic tempters and seducers they are. Bishop Gordon.—London,
April 10, Easter Eve, 1773. —After 10 April the suitable and proper ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Compounding is diabolizing. Moral : furo/lase from first hands, if possible.
By this, I do not mean to insinuate that all dealers in liquor are unscrupulous ..."
3. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"... and so many diabolizing attributes embodied in his imagination of the Deity,
that his system of beliefs was tainted throughout by them, ..."
4. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"... as he watched some performers "diabolizing " in Kensington Gardens: "A month
or so ago that sort of thing was only being done in our Asylums. ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1775)
"... derive to him- felf, from thus depreciating, or rather diabolizing human nature.
44. An Inquiry inta the Origin and Limitations of the Feudal Dig- ..."
6. Christian Dogmatics: A Compendium of the Doctrines of Christianity by Hans Martensen, William Urwick (1874)
"Whether there be diabolizing creatures, whether among these there be one creature
in whom the evil principle is so centralized, and has attained so personal ..."
7. Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities: Embracing New York by James William Buel (1883)
"... quite evil enough appearing without any aid of costumer or diabolizing painter.
In fact, the girls must surely have been born with unnatural homeliness ..."
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