devility

Noun

1. The quality of being a devil or like a devil; devilishness.
   • Because, according to medical science, as defined in the branch of phychology and pshychiatry, there are four different stages of nervous devility. - 1992, Syed Mohd Amirul Islam, Shanshah Ziaul Huq Maijbhandari:
   • His eyes a prosecutor's shone through slits, devility stood to twist the rope to my neck, gaunt limb burdened to crink. - 2010, Charles E. Miller, The Sentence, →ISBN, page 77:
   • Therefore the falsely masculine cling to the skirts of the Diabolic for fear that they should be obliged to come to terms, one way or another, with God's just retribution, whereas the genuinely masculine, who are still...