daimons

Noun

daimon (plural daimons or daimones)

1. Synonym of demon, particularly as
   • Love, as we know it in the book, is a daimon which possesses and undoes each of its victims.1983 August 13, John Rosario, “Illustrious Obscurity”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 16

   Synonyms:

   demon, particularly as

   1. (Greek) A tutelary deity or spirit that watches over a person or place.
      • All at once, my daimōn—that other Me over whom I button my waistcoat when I button it over my own person—put it into my head to look up the story of Madame Saqui.1890 January, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], “Over the Teacups”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume LXV, number CCCLXXXVII, Boston, Mass.; New York...