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Meaning of succuba | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A female demon or fiend; a succubus.

Equivalents

Français succuba
Italiano succuba

Examples

“a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates Though seeming in shape a woman natural / Was a fiend of the kind that succubae some call.”
“In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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