demonomachy

Etymology

From demono- + -machy.

demonomachy means A battle between or against demons or devils. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why “demonomachy” is a great word

DEMONOMACHY — [Noun] A battle between or against demons or devils. From the Greek-based combining form demono- ("demon") + -machy ("battle, fight"). First attested in 1718 in the writing of D. Campbell. Unlike *theomachy* (strife among gods) or *exorcism* (a ritual of expulsion), demonomachy is a sprawling, cosmic war waged purely within the infernal realm. It is the shattering of obsidian citadels in the abyss, the churning melee of shadow legions in a sulphurous chasm, and the silent psychic siege in a madhouse corridor—a shadow theater where even damnation is not a final state, but a field of perpetual strife.

noun

A battle between or against demons or devils.“For other conceptual symmetries are apparent between the overall patterning of Christian history and the notion that devils could both take possession of and be forced out of individual Christians. They stem from the depiction of the whole historical process as a demonomachy and its subdivision into stages marked by the relative strengths of God and the devil.”