different between malevolent vs demoniac

English

Etymology

From Middle English *malevolent (suggested by Middle English malevolence), from Old French malivolent and Latin malevolentem, from male (“badly, wrongly”) + volens (“willing, wishing”), from velle (“to wish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l?v?l?nt/

Adjective

malevolent (comparative more malevolent, superlative most malevolent)

1. Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
2. Having an evil or harmful influence.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:evil

Antonyms

• benevolent

Derived terms

• malevolently

Related terms

• malevolence

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• daemoniac
• dæmoniac

Etymology

From Old French demoniaque, from Late Latin daemoniacus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??m??n?ak/, /dim??na?æk/

Adjective

demoniac (comparative more demoniac, superlative most demoniac)

1. Possessed or controlled by a demon.
2. Of or pertaining to demons; demonic.
   • 1928, H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", Weird Tales, Vol. 11, No. 2, pages 159–178, 287:

     Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell.

   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 216:

     There was movement everywhere, screaming, demoniac activity; the old man was coming across the tumbling logs.

Translations

Noun

demoniac (plural demoniacs)

1. Someone who is possessed by a demon.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 53:

     The exorcism was dropped from the second Edwardian Prayer Book, because of its implication that unbaptised infants were demoniacs […].

References

• demoniac in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• comedian, daemonic, dæmonic, midocean

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin daemoniacus. Attested from the 13th century.

Adjective

demoniac m (feminine singular demoniaca, masculine plural demoniacs, feminine plural demoniacas) (Gascony, Languedoc)

1. demoniac, demonic

Related terms

• demòni

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 184.
• Pèir Morà, "Diccionari tot en gascon", 2020, Éditions des Régionalismes, Cressé, ?ISBN, p. 93

References

Romanian

Etymology

From French démoniaque.

Adjective

demoniac m or n (feminine singular demoniac?, masculine plural demoniaci, feminine and neuter plural demoniace)

1. demonic

Declension