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Daimon

British pronunciation/dˈeɪmən/
American pronunciation/dˈeɪmən/
Daimon
[NOUN]
1

an evil supernatural being

synonyms : daemon
demon
devil
fiend
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1And that, as Heraclitus had said 2000 years earlier, a man's ethos, his way of being in the world, was his daimon, the guiding principle that shaped his life.
2Other sources say that though this idea of Satan being a tempter or accuser may have existed, it was the Greek daimon, a spirit or minor divinity who engaged with humans, that informed a key aspect of the new Prince of Darkness kind of evil.
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