daemon
Example Sentences
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Lyra lives in a universe parallel to our own, where people have a daemon - a companion spirit in animal form.
From BBC • Oct. 21, 2025
Dan Kois: What was that time in your life like, when, as it were, your daemon started to settle?
From Slate • Dec. 29, 2020
Lyra is no longer a child but a troubled young adult who finds herself estranged from her daemon Pantalaimon — effectively at war with herself.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2019
His Dark Materials Philip Pullman’s epic fantasy comes to the small screen as a series set in a world wherein every human being has an animal daemon, a manifestation of their soul.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2019
But she could also see something Farder Coram couldn’t, which was the agitation of Dr. Lanselius’s daemon, and she knew at once that it was no good to pretend.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
