diablerie

She embodies the music’s seductive diablerie.

At the commencement of the spectacle, which lasted three days, and opened with a scene of diablerie, the man who held the r�le of Satan having wished, says an official report of this epoch, to ascend to earth, caught fire in his nether garments, and was severely burnt.

In this were assembled all the diablerie, usually comprising a dozen principal personages; and from thence issued a terrible storm of howls and shrieks.

This was not wonderful in an age of spells and diablerie, when the wisest allowed the reality of magic, and the learned and curious could cite a hundred instances of its power.

—Can any of your readers offer any suggestions as to how the name "Robert," and its various diminutives, became connected with so much diablerie?