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(Christianity) The destroying angel of the abyss, the undoer or disintegrator. quotations examples
A great black bird, Apollyon's bosom-friend, / Sailed past, nor beat his wide wing dragon-penned / That brushed my cap—perchance the guide I sought.
1855, Robert Browning, chapter 27, in “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”