different between deviltry vs devilry

English

Etymology

Variant spelling of devilry, influenced by gallantry.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?v.?l.t?i/
• enPR: d?v'?l-tr?

Noun

deviltry (countable and uncountable, plural deviltries)

1. Devilry.
   • 1897, W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Conservation of Races" in The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays, edited by Nahum Dimitri Chandler, New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, p. 57, [1]

     They stand back to make room for every rascal and demagogue who chooses to cloak his selfish deviltry under the veil of race pride.

   • 1954, Alan W. Watts, Myth and Ritual in Christianity, New York: Grove Press, 1960, Chapter VII, p. 223,

     This is the law of "enantiodromia" whereby every extreme turns into its opposite, whereby Satanism is actually created by Puritanism and deviltry by sanctity.

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English

Alternative forms

• deviltry

Etymology

From Middle English develrye; equivalent to devil +? -ry.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?v.?l.?i/, /?d?v.?l.?i/
• enPR: d?v'?l-r?

Noun

devilry (countable and uncountable, plural devilries)

1. mischief.
2. Wickedness; cruelty.
3. An action performed with the help of a devil; witchcraft.
4. An act of such mischief, wickedness, cruelty, or witchcraft.

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