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English
Etymology
From devil + -ess.
Noun
deviless (plural devilesses)
- 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.
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