archidiabolical
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From archi- + diabolical.
Adjective
[edit]archidiabolical (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,[1]
- Always Trotsky displays that archidiabolical pride which is both his virtue as an individual and his most dangerous quality as a statesman.
- 1965, John Fowles, chapter 61, in The Magus[2], Boston: Little, Brown, page 452:
- The goat figure, his satanic majesty, came forward with an archidiabolical dignity […]
- 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,[1]