Talk:Great Satan

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Rfv-sense 1 -- isn't this just great + Satan? Even our one citation doesn't capitalise the "great" so I don't think it's the same thing. I suppose this should have been an rfd really. Ƿidsiþ 15:58, 8 February 2009 (UTc)

Maybe we should put the quote on the citations page for this so it doesn't get lost (or at great Satan) and delete the sense on wrong capitalisation grounds. DCDuring TALK 17:46, 8 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

RFV failed, sense removed. Here is the quotation in question, for posterity (I'm putting it here so it ends up on the talk-page):

  • 1948, Mahatma Ghandi, in the Council Bluffs Nonpareil:
    Imperialism is the great Satan of our day.

RuakhTALK 19:09, 1 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Figurative use?

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Is there any figurative usage of this word? Tharthan (talk) 03:00, 27 April 2020 (UTC)Reply