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demonism

(ˈdiːməˌnɪzəm)
n
1. (Theology)
a. belief in the existence and power of demons
b. worship of demons
2. (Theology) another word for demonology
ˈdemonist n
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de•mon•ism

(ˈdi məˌnɪz əm)

n.
1. belief in or worship of demons.
2. the study of demons; demonology.
[1690–1700]
de′mon•ist, n.
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demonism

1. the belief in demons.
2. the worship of demons. Also demonolatry. — demonist, n.
See also: Demons
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.demonism - a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan)
black art, black magic, necromancy, sorcery - the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
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References in classic literature ?
no: but here thou beholdest even in a dumb brute, the instinct of the knowledge of the demonism in the world.
Rattle's use of quadriple woodwind and bumping pairs of trumpets really clarified the textures (was this Mahler's idea?), the Scherzo was given genuine status, looking beyond Mendelssohnian trippery to Brucknerian demonism, and the double variations of the Adagio flowed beatifically, shattered immediately by the intrusion of the finale's vision of a new world.
In sections on filling a cosmological void, Christianizing Chinese hearts and minds, and Christian activism in local society, they consider such aspects as torch-bearers of modernity: Western missionaries, demonism, and exorcism in modern China from the 1860s to the 1930s; Buddhist-Christian encounters: Robert Morrison and the Haichuang Buddhist Temple in 19th-century Canton; mission education and new opportunities: American Presbyterian schools in Shandong Province; patriotic cooperation: why the church-run Border Service Department was established in wartime China, and faith and charity: Christian disaster management in 1920s Chaozhou.
See also Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 1997); Nathan Johnstone, The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge, 2006), https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495847; Charlotte-Rose Millar, Witchcraft, the Devil and Emotions in Early Modern England (London, 2017), https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547015; Kristen Poole, Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England: Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama (Cambridge, 2011), https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511977299; Diane Purkiss, The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations (London, 1996), https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203359723; Lyndal Roper, The Witch in the Western Imagination (Charlottesville, 2012).
However, the question at issue today is, was President Buhari driven to that event by patriotism or the demonism that is often the driving force of despots?
(5.1.217-18) Acosta thus creates a rigid binary opposition between Spain's Catholic faith and the idolatrous cultures that the missionaries encounter in the New World, which means that the civilizing mission of the Spanish friars and conquistadors is to bring the word of God to an America rife with demonism. (8) This approach to American spiritual practices transforms the nature of the conquest of the Indies, which quickly evolves from the rapid conversion of natives without their own religious beliefs into a protracted, sacred struggle against sinners and idolaters.
Joseph has his moments of humour as well as Gothic demonism.
For Nassaar this is a dubious mark of distinction, and one that he equates with demonism and self-destruction (xii).
31, 33, 36, 38 and Kristen Poole, Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England: Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 109.