What's the difference between succuba and succubus?

Succuba


Definition:

  • (n.) A female demon or fiend. See Succubus.

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Succubus


Definition:

  • (n.) A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.
  • (n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gaskell took Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre, the dirtiest, darkest, most depraved fantasy of all time, and, like an angel murdering a succubus, trod on her.
  • (2) Scarlett Johansson plays the succubus who comes to question the need for all this man-eating.
  • (3) Yet despite being a malevolent ink-and-paper succubus that will devour your firstborn – seriously, chuck a baby at a copy of the Mail, and watch as the paper roll its eyes back and swallows it whole – the Mail deserves its voice.
  • (4) Mrs Robinson would be happy to destroy Benjamin, and soon becomes a vengeful maternal succubus, the cold, strict prohibitive mother who punishes for no reason apart from her own pleasure.

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