Both Uses of
diabolical
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!†
p. 102.3 *
- If you had listened to the voice of conscience and heeded the stings of remorse before you had urged your diabolical vengeance to this extremity, Frankenstein would yet have lived.†
p. 222.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(diabolical) evil; very bad; or cruel and clever (like something of the devil)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely (and then in British English), diabolical can mean very bad -- as in "The traffic was diabolical."