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daemon
/ˈdiː.mən/
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What does daemon mean?
noun
- A minor deity or divinity.
- A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish.
- An idea depicted as an entity.
More meanings (2)
noun
- A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
- (archaic) Archaic spelling of demon.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdiː.mən/
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The victor daemon mounts obscure in air, While the ship sails without the pilot’s care.
Observe his footsteps in the Daemon of Socrates.
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In summe, all singularity if Good, they attributed to the Spirit of God; and if Evill, to some Daemon, but a kakodaimen, an Evill Daemon, that is, a Devill.
Edmund was almost as welcome to his brother as Fanny to her aunt; but Mrs. Norris, instead of having comfort from either, was but the more irritated by the sight of the person whom, in the blindness of her anger, she could have charged as the daemon of the piece.