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ruthless
English
Etymology
From Middle English reuþeles; equivalent to ruth +? -less.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??u??l?s/
Adjective
ruthless (comparative more ruthless, superlative most ruthless)
- Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
- Antonym: ruthful
- 1725, Alexander Pope et al. (translators), Homer (author), The Odyssey of Homer, Volume I, Bernard Lintot, page 10:
- At length their rage the ho?tile Pow’rs re?train, / All but the ruthle?s Monarch of the Main.
Related terms
- ruthlessness
Translations
Anagrams
- Selhurst, hurtless, hustlers, sluthers
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demoniac
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)
- Possessed or controlled by a demon.
- 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.
- 1928, H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", Weird Tales, Vol. 11, No. 2, pages 159–178, 287:
Translations
Noun
demoniac (plural demoniacs)
- 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 […].
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 53:
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)
- 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)
- demonic
Declension
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