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Demoniac vs Demoniacal - What's the difference?

demoniac | demoniacal |

As adjectives the difference between demoniac and demoniacal

is that demoniac is possessed or controlled by a demon while demoniacal is pertaining to, characteristic of, or produced by a demon or evil spirit; devilish or fiendish.

As a noun demoniac

is someone who is possessed by a demon.

demoniac

English

Alternative forms

* daemoniac *

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • possessed or controlled by a demon.
  • Of or pertaining to demons; demonic.
  • * 1928 , H. P. Lovecraft, "", Weird Tales , Vol. 11, No. 2, pages 159–178, 287:
    • Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell.
  • * 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber & Faber 2005, p. 216:
    • There was movement everywhere, screaming, demoniac activity; the old man was coming across the tumbling logs.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who is possessed by a demon.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 53:
  • *:The exorcism was dropped from the second Edwardian Prayer Book, because of its implication that unbaptised infants were demoniacs […].

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    demoniacal

    English

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to, characteristic of, or produced by a demon or evil spirit; devilish or fiendish.
  • * Thackeray
    • Sarcastic, demoniacal laughter.

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