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English
Etymology
From archi- + diabolical.
Adjective
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,
- 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, Boston: Little, Brown, page 452:The goat figure, his satanic majesty, came forward with an archidiabolical dignity […]