Word.ws English Dictionary

exorcists

exorcists is the plural of exorcist.

Meaning of exorcist

Noun

exorcist (plural exorcists)

  1. A person, especially a priest or priestess, who is a practitioner in exorcism to force out evil spirits or demons from a living being.
    • There came, too, an exorcist to banish him. When he began his conjuration with his magic words, Hinzelmann was at first quite quiet, and did not let himself be heard at all, but when he was going to read the most powerful sentences against him, he snatched the book out of his hand, tore it to...1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 51

Questions about exorcists

What is exorcists the plural of?
Exorcists is the plural of exorcist.

Words near exorcists in the dictionary

  1. exorcist
  2. exorcistate
  3. exorcistates
  4. exorcistic
  5. exorcistical
  6. exorcists
  7. exorcizable
  8. exorcization
  9. exorcizations
  10. exorcize
  11. exorcized

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: exorcists (page history and authors); exorcist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “exorcists.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/exorcists. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.