deviltry
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈdɛv.əl.tɹi/
deviltry
- Devilry.
- 1897, W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Conservation of Races" in The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays, edited by Nahum Dimitri Chandler, New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, p. 57,
- They stand back to make room for every rascal and demagogue who chooses to cloak his selfish deviltry under the veil of race pride.
- 1954, Alan W. Watts, Myth and Ritual in Christianity, New York: Grove Press, 1960, Chapter VII, p. 223,
- This is the law of "enantiodromia" whereby every extreme turns into its opposite, whereby Satanism is actually created by Puritanism and deviltry by sanctity.
- 1897, W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Conservation of Races" in The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays, edited by Nahum Dimitri Chandler, New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, p. 57,
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