English edit

Etymology edit

devil +‎ -ship

Noun edit

devilship (usually uncountable, plural devilships)

  1. The character or person of a devil or Satan.
    • 1647, Abraham Cowley, The Mistress:
      Thy airy devilship to remove
      From this circle here of love

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for devilship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)