Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The worship of evil spirits by incantations intended to propitiate them.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the acts or rites of worshiping devils
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Examples
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Theirs is a tale speckled with murder and church-burning rampages, perfumed with rumors of cannibalism and devil-worship, and marinated in a timeless broth of violent homo-anxiety and neo-Wagnerian nationalist mysticism (Sons of Odin, and so forth).
Kurt Loder Reviews ‘Until The Light Takes Us’ » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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She was later taken to another home, believed to be in Flagler Estates, where her captors took drugs and performed a devil-worship ritual, the report states.
Woman says she was kidnapped and beaten by Santeria voodo group 2008
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D&D taught me about the power of imagination -- but D&D was devil-worship.
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I don't suppose it's actually a coven-not devil-worship, I don't mean.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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More revelations as to the existence of devil-worship have been made over recent weeks and now Christians are beginning to take the issue more seriously, calling for concerted efforts to counter Satanism.
The Satanic Perspective on the USA’s Troubling Times | Disinformation 2008
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At the time, Roger Ebert gave the film adaptation of Ira Levin's 1965 devil-worship novel four stars.
Mike Doyle: Rosemary's Maybes: Losing My Connection with Classic Horror Films 2009
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John Mortimer in his story Rumpole and the Children of the Devil, where he writes that a child is accused of ‘indulging in devil-worship, hellish rituals and satanic rights.’
Homophones 2006
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John Mortimer in his story Rumpole and the Children of the Devil, where he writes that a child is accused of ‘indulging in devil-worship, hellish rituals and satanic rights.’
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John Mortimer in his story Rumpole and the Children of the Devil, where he writes that a child is accused of ‘indulging in devil-worship, hellish rituals and satanic rights.’
Homophones 2006
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It is a complete betrayal of our system of justice and any religious system short of devil-worship.
Bob Geiger: Senate Democrats and Iraq Vets Agree On Habeas Corpus 2008
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