werewolvish

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Adjective

werewolvish (comparative more werewolvish, superlative most werewolvish)

  1. Alternative form of werewolfish.
    • 1983, Walter Burkert, translated by Peter Bing, Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 88:
      In Europe, there is at least one case of a “werewolf” on record in sixteenth-century Livland. There, the werewolvish activity consisted for the most part of breaking into other people’s cellars at night and drinking any beer found there.
    • 1988 November 4, “What's Shakin'...Nov. 4 through Nov. 10”, in The Catalyst, volume 24, number 6, The Colorado College, page 22:
      Warren Zevon and the Patrician Homeboys will grace Denver's Rainbow Music Hall with their werewolvish presence this Sunday night.
    • 1993, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, chapter 17, in The Thread That Binds the Bones, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2016, →ISBN:
      The werewolvish man released Dasher, who yipped and ran to Trixie, cowering behind her.
    • 2005 January, Don D’Ammassa, “Critical Mass”, in Chronicle: SF, Fantasy & Horror’s Monthly Trade Journal, volume 27, number 1 / 255, →ISSN, page 21, column 2:
      Raised by wolves, employed as a private investigator, he discovered previously that there are werewolvish aliens living hidden within human society, and that he is akin to them.
    • 2013, Ralph O’Connor, The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel: Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish Saga, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 97:
      On the possible werewolvish significance of the epithet luchthonn, see Kim McCone, ‘Olr. Olc, Luch- and IE *wĺkʷos, *lúkʷos “Wolf”’, Ériu, 36 (1985), 171–6, pp. 175–6.
    • 2014, Roy Gill, “Pretty Good Year”, in Werewolf Parallel, KelpiesTeen, Floris Books, →ISBN, page 268:
      Cameron could feel no werewolvish urges in his body, no strange desire to stretch and quiver and change.
    • 2015, Matilda Raj, “The Hag and the Relatives”, in The Churning Lake, Xlibris, →ISBN:
      The other two creatures behind the hag, before Sashkoth, were extremely hairy, disturbed-looking humans, who looked werewolvish.
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