Ruthless vs Demoniac - What's the difference?
ruthless | demoniac | Related terms |
Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
* 1725 , , Volume I, Bernard Lintot,
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:
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber & Faber 2005, p. 216:
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 […].
Ruthless is a related term of demoniac.
As adjectives the difference between ruthless and demoniac
is that ruthless is without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless while demoniac is possessed or controlled by a demon.As a noun demoniac is
someone who is possessed by a demon.ruthless
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Adjective
(wikipedia ruthless) (en adjective)page 10:
- At length their rage the ho?tile Pow’rs re?train, / All but the ruthle?s Monarch of the Main.
Anagrams
*demoniac
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Alternative forms
* daemoniac *Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- There was movement everywhere, screaming, demoniac activity; the old man was coming across the tumbling logs.
