deviless
(ˈdɛv(ə)lɪs)
[f. devil + -ess: cf. F. diablesse.]
A she-devil.
| a 1693 Urquhart Rabelais iv. xxvii. 226 There was not Angel, Man, Devil, nor Deviless, upon the place, who would not [etc.]. 1761 Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) III. xx. 318 Though we should abominate each other ten times worse than so many devils or devilesses. 1881 Athenæum 9 July 45/3 But a commonplace woman, with little of either the saint or the ‘deviless’ in her composition. |