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German
Noun
gefallener Engel m
- fallen angel (angel who was exiled from heaven)
- 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 14:
Der böse Dämon des christlichen Glaubens, der Teufel des Mittelalters, war nach der christlichen Mythologie selbst ein gefallener Engel und gottgleicher Natur.- The evil demon of the Christian belief, the devil of the middle ages, was according to the Christian mythology a fallen angel himself and of godlike nature.