Crossword-Solution: DIABLERIE 9 letters, 55 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

From Butler's Hudibras and its curious notes, we may learn what immense numbers of these fellows lived upon the credulity of mankind in that age of witchcraft and diablerie.

Was it ever yet heard that brownie or bogle mixed colours for a painter? Nay, touch me, and see whether I am not of sinful Scots flesh and blood"; and thereon I laughed aloud, knowing what caused his fear, and merry at the sight of it, for he had ever held tales of "diablerie," and of wraiths and freits and fetches, in high scorn.

The effect of this figure was not terrible like that of the President, but it had every diablerie that can come from the utterly grotesque.

The composition was infinitely daring; for out of this shadow shone the great black eyes, their diablerie most cunningly insinuated; whilst with a brilliant exclusion of detail--by means of two strokes of the brush steeped in brightest vermilion, and one seemingly haphazard splash of dead white--an evil and abandoned smile was made to greet the spectator.

Indeed to say the truth, that trait of mind in the philosophic Bon-Bon did begin at length to assume a character of strange intensity and mysticism, and appeared deeply tinctured with the diablerie of his favorite German studies.