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Etymology
From Ancient Greek κακοδαίμων (kakodaimōn, “ill-starred”) from κακός (kakos, “bad”) + δαίμων (daimōn, “genius, divinity”).
Adjective
cacodaemoniacal
- daemonic.
- By extension of a person* : evilly .
- There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, brass, and wood-wind, on which St John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness; whilst in a multitude of inlaid ebony cabinets reposed the most incredible and unimaginable variety of tomb-loot ever assembled by human madness and perversity. - "The Hound" - H.P. Lovecraft
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