satanhood
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]satanhood (uncountable)
- (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 […]