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archidiabolical en · ADJ

Etymology

From archi- + diabolical.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Of or relating to an archdevil.
    • 1933, Malcolm Cowley, “Trotsky and the Art of Insurrection” in Henry Dan Piper (ed.), Think Back on Us . . . A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930’s by Malcolm Cowley, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967, p. 28, Always Trotsky displays that archidiabolical pride which is both his virtue as an individual and his most dangerous quality as a statesman.
    • The goat figure, his satanic majesty, came forward with an archidiabolical dignity […] 1965, John Fowles, chapter 61, in The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, page 452: