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German
Etymology
From Mephistopheles + -isch.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mephistophelisch (strong nominative masculine singular mephistophelischer, comparative mephistophelischer, superlative am mephistophelischsten)
- (higher register) Mephistophelean, devilish
- Synonym: teuflisch
2018 November 25, Nils Markwardt, “Los, tu Böses!”, in Philosophie Magazin:Jedoch offenbart sich die Dialektik von Gut und Böse nicht nur darin, dass Letzteres sich in einer fundamentalen Selbstverkennung für Ersteres hält, sondern es gibt auch den entgegengesetzten Fall, bei dem jene mephistophelische Kraft wirkt, "die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft".- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
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