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FAUSTIAN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pertaining to or resembling or befitting Faust or Faustus especially in insatiably striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values
Example:
a Faustian pact with the Devil
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Faust (an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge)
Derivation:
Faust (an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge)
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