satanhood

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Satan +‎ -hood

Noun[edit]

satanhood (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being Satanic.
    • 1973, Carlo Suarès, The passion of Judas: a mystery play, page 16:
      When the Gospels are seen as an episode in anthropogeny, the Rabbi as a forerunner of a ripened humanity (ours being only pre-human), then Peter and Judas appear to have reached satanhood...
    • 1984, August J. Nigro, The diagonal line: separation and reparation in American literature:
      The viability of a visible sainthood posits the viability of a visible satanhood; the Salem experience was the realization of both the cleavage dealt by the doctrine of the elect and the attenuation of charisma, now reconcentrated and expressed as an embodied defilement []