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pandemoniacs

pandemoniacs is the plural of pandemoniac.

Meaning of pandemoniac

Noun

pandemoniac (plural pandemoniacs)

  1. One who delights in pandemonium and often causes it.
    • […]and never did a conclave of popish pandemoniacs with their own Vulcan seated as and for their president, confronted by his deputy with hammer, tongs, and poker, for his triple trident, meet at any time (except to concoct and perpetrate a deed of blood, more or less direct) to determine upon an...1838, James (the Elder;) Humphrys, The Pioneers in Contrast. A Disquisition Descriptive Throughout of the Truly Simoniacal Use and Anti-Christian Abuse of Water, as at this Day Employed in the Matter...
  2. Something that is characterized by pandemonium.
    • The question is, therefore, whether we are to practise and to endure bad manners, and thereby to revert, as we must in that case, to the state of nature and the uses of pandemoniacs; or whether it would be not best and wisest for each of us both to pay to and to claim from all, those manifestations...1875 June 5, R., “Our Manners”, in Vanity Fair, London, page 311, column 1

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Questions about pandemoniacs

What is pandemoniacs the plural of?
Pandemoniacs is the plural of pandemoniac.

Words near pandemoniacs in the dictionary

  1. pandemies
  2. pandemmy
  3. pandemonia
  4. pandemoniac
  5. pandemoniacal
  6. pandemoniacs
  7. pandemonian
  8. pandemonians
  9. pandemonic
  10. pandemonious
  11. pandemonism

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