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1. (n.) Mephistopheles
(in the Faust legend) the devil who tempts Faust.
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1. (noun) Mephistopheles
evil spirit to whom Faust sold his soul
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1. Mephistopheles
the impersonation in Goethe's "Faust" of the modern devil, the incarnation of the spirit of universal scepticism and scoffing, who can see not only no beauty in goodness but no deforming in iniquity, alike without reverence for God and fear of his adversary, blind as a mole to all worth and all unworth throughout the universe, yet knowing and boastful of knowledge, by means of which he sees only "the ridiculous, the unsuitable, the bad, but for the solemn, the noble, the worthy is blind as his ancient mother."
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