Crossword-Solution: EXORCISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Exorcism | n. | The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used. |
| Exorcism | n. | Conjuration for raising spirits. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “EXORCISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Action in a Blatty best seller | 1 answer |
| Casting out of a demon | 1 answer |
| Cleansing of a sort | 1 answer |
| Demon-chasing ritual | 1 answer |
| Event in a classic William Peter Blatty novel | 1 answer |
| Getting the devil out | 1 answer |
| Head-turning experience? | 1 answer |
| It deals with personal demons | 1 answer |
| Cleansing ritual | 3 answers |
| dispossession | 39 answers |
| execration | 46 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXORCISM (5)
Suddenly, however, he protruded a spare skinny hand from the cloak in which it had hitherto been enveloped, and pointed with a short staff, tipped with metal, in the direction of my face, as it he were commencing an exorcism.
Abraham Wallace, in his little pamphlet "Jesus of Nazareth."[6] Certainly, no miracle or wonder working, save that of exorcism, is recorded in any of the Evangelists until after the time when Christ began to assemble His circle.
But against the "power of the air" were used other means of a very different character and tendency, and foremost among these was exorcism.
Almost as soon as the clock struck half past eleven, they heard steps near the chapel, whereupon the police director and the young Latitudinarian went to the window in order to watch the beginning of the exorcism, and as the chapel was in total darkness, they thought that they should be able to see without being seen; but matters turned out differently from what they expected.
Sure they have a conceit, if he of the bottomless pit had not long since broke prison, that this quadruple exorcism would bar him down.
Quotes with EXORCISM (3)
Only after you've done the exorcism, thenyou'll understand that ghost's also a species.
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself... It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing as a kind of exorcism, casting off invading creatures by projecting them into universal existence, keeping them on the other side of the bridge… It may be exaggerating to say that all completely successful short stories, especially fantastic stories, are products of neurosis, nightmares or hallucination neutralized through objectification and translated to…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1984–2020).