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satanhood - What does it mean?

Definition of 'satanhood'

English

Noun

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  • (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...