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UK
/ˈɪnkjuːbəs/
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NOUN
- someone who depresses or worries others
- a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women
- a situation resembling a terrifying dream
How To Use incubus In A Sentence
- But these ex-communist, university-based scholars were made to carry the incubus of the past.
- Bits of Incubus, the 1965 horror flick filmed in Esperanto and starring William Shatner. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/28.
- It was a Christian Democratic party that had its roots and values in the Resistance and that purged the incubus of the traditional association of Catholicism with the Right.
- For most of the history of Christianity there are reports of Satan having sex with humans, either as an incubus (male devil) or succubus (female devil).
- The incubus lingered at the opening of the kitchen, leaning on one arm against the doorframe, the other hand casually holding a dishrag over his important bits. Brush of Darkness
- Jupiter in person, was the incubus of Alcmena and Semele; Thetis in person, the succubus of Peleus, and Venus of Anchises, without having recourse to the various contrivances of our extraordinary demonism. A Philosophical Dictionary
- In the Old Testament the incubus was viewed as a voluptuous being eager to mate with women.
- Joyce regarded his US citizenship as a moral and political incubus.
- So, unless it straggles back again and Father gets rid of his incubus, which isn't at all likely, the eldest daughter of the noble house of Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus
- Many economists have in recent decades come to be persuaded that there is a way to get the political incubus off the economy's back.
