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Webster 1913 Edition


Deviless

Dev′il-ess

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Noun.
A she-devil.
[R.]
Sterne.

Definition 2024


deviless

deviless

English

Noun

deviless (plural devilesses)

  1. A female devil.
    • 1890, Lafcadio Hearn, Two years in the French West Indies: Volume 3
      Then I see a sudden scattering of goblins and demons and devilesses in all directions: they run into houses, up alleys, — hide behind door-ways.