exorciser
Example Sentences
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In the county clerk's office in Charlestown, Jefferson county, West Virginia, can be seen the deed made by Livingstone and wife to Denis Cahill, the supposed exorciser of the fiend.
From The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country by Joseph Barry
The exorciser would have no difficulty in threading his way through the complicated mass.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
A higher mode of belief is the best exorciser, because it makes the spiritual at one with the actual world instead of hostile, or at best alien.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
In this way the exorciser proceeds to enumerate an exceedingly long list of sins—no less than one hundred—most of which are ethical misdemeanors, while others are merely ceremonial transgressions.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
In these tragi-comedies the exorciser represented God, or at any rate the Archangel, overthrowing the dragon.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
