devilityn.

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epitome sig. F3 The ilsample of Archbishop Titus, whome the D. of diuillitie..affirmeth to haue beene Arch. of Creet.

1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iv. 316 A formall kind of strangers civilitie..which..may rather be called Diuillitie.

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 113 These are but quick-sands wherewith you doe grauell your deepe skill of Diuillitie.

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. ii. 48 That dirty puddle and deep dunghil of Devility, rather then Divinity.

1734 R. Lyon Let. to Reverend J. Adams 11 The very Marrow of Tindal's modern Devility!

1775 N. Ames Astron. Diary sig. A3^v All Men & States however Divine they may appear, are often so ungarded [sic] as to manifest their humanity—if not their devility.

1829 Christian Baptist (Va.) 5 May 231 This is an unlearned question of modern Divinity, (i.e. Devility, if such a word of thing there be).

1868 Flake's Bull. (Galveston, Texas) 12 Feb. 6/2 We shall treat them as evidence of devility, as examples of wickedness.

1940 Daily Cosmos-Monitor (St. Charles, Missouri) 29 June 1/3 Had Hoover been elected, the devility of Roosevelt's first four years of misrule and extravagance would not have occurred.