Crossword-Solution: SUCCUBA 7 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

And suspicion grew into certainty, and with certainty came madness; imagination ran riot: she was a Messalina--a Julia--a Joan of Naples--a veritable Succuba--a thing polluted, degraded, and abominable; and, because of her beauty, I cursed all beautiful things, and because of her womanhood, I cursed all women.

But there were other times at night when his defeated desire came and lay in his arms like an invisible unyielding succuba, torturing, maddening, driving him back to the street to drink until drunken sleep came with its sudden brutal mercy.

Compared with their greedy tricks, the caresses of a woman only diffused a temperate pleasure, and ended in a feeble shock, but with this Succuba one remained in a fury at having clasped only the void, at having been the dupe of a lie, the plaything of an appearance, of which one could not remember the form or the features.

Poor devils that can't afford ten marks per year for their fun, Cit's wives that know only their ill-kempt husbands, factory girls that sell their virtue for a supper or a glass of beer--though afterwards they claim it was champagne--all take delight in contemplating that you, or any other good looking royal woman, are Frankenstein's succuba or worse.

Etym: [See Succuba.] (Bot.) Defn: Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.