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Definition of Prince of darkness
1. Noun. (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell.
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief, Islam, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism, Muslimism
Generic synonyms: Spiritual Being, Supernatural Being
Derivative terms: Devilize, Satanic
Definition of Prince of darkness
1. Proper noun. Satan; the Devil ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prince Of Darkness
Literary usage of Prince of darkness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practical Works by David Clarkson (1865)
"Under Satan, the prince of darkness. That is his title. The whole world is divided
betwixt these two potentates, Christ the prince of light and life, ..."
2. An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the by Abraham Fornander, John F. G. Stokes (1880)
"... and the transformation of the Hawaiian fallen angel, Kanaloa? the prince of
darkness and chief of the infernal world, to a rank almost equal with Kane, ..."
3. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1847)
"... without changing, mending and reforming it ; so that men might be as wicked
as they were before, and as much under the power of the prince of darkness. ..."
4. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History: Ancient and Modern by Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1832)
"For a long period of time, the prince of darkness was ignorant of the ...
The vanquished prince of darkness now produced the parents of the human race. ..."
5. Institutes of Ecclesiastical History: Ancient and Modern by Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1832)
"For a long period of time, the prince of darkness was ignorant of the ...
The vanquished prince of darkness now produced the parents of the human race. ..."
6. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction, Classical Mediæval, Legendary: Famous by William Shepard Walsh (1915)
"... whom Edgar in King Lear (1605) in his character of Mad Tom asserts that he is
haunted: The prince of darkness is a gentleman Modo he's called, and Mahu. ..."
7. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1823)
"The ruler of the light is supreme ly happy, and in consequence then of benevolent
and good ; the prince of darkness is unhappy in himself, and de «TOUS of ..."
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