"diabolism" meaning in English

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          "text": "The Witchcraft Reader By Darren Oldridge\nIn a small minority of Italian trials, one finds a mixture of charges that cannot be categorized as either sorcery or typical diabolism.",
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          "text": "\"Demon Possession in Elizabethan England - Page 200\"\nSuch incidents were, of course, interpreted by sympathizers as evidence of saintliness and by opponents as evidence of diabolism.",
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        "Worship of the devil; Satanism"
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          "text": "\"The Fiend's Delight\" By Dod Grile\nThe atrocities constituting this \"cold collation\" of diabolisms are taken mainly from various Californian journals.",
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          "ref": "The Railroad Trainman, Volume 17",
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          "text": "An Authentic Copy of the Minutes of Evidence on the Trial of John Smith\nThese diabolisms some of the religious negroes had been provoked to retort upon their tempters, in a manner said to be disrespectful ; and for this insolence they have been repeatedly flogged and confined in the stocks",
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        "Character, action, utterances, creative works, behavior or principles appropriate to the devil."
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        "(countable) Character, action, utterances, creative works, behavior or principles appropriate to the devil."
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        "(uncountable) Possession by Satan or other demonic forces."
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          "text": "By Authors Possessed: The Demonic Novel in Russia By Adam Weiner\nBely's attribution of an \"Ahrimanian\" spirit to Petersburg resonates on many levels of the novel, confirming not only that the core of Petersburg is diabolism, but also indicating how that diabolism relates to the novel's sense of its authorship.",
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          "text": "\"Out of the Darkness, Or, Diabolism and Destiny By John Wesley Grant\"\nThus was the Watchman torn from the wall, and diabolism, darkness and desolation were enthroned.",
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        "(uncountable) The property of having attributes that are demonic or Satanic."
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