Lycanthropic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to lycanthropy.

    "Lycanthropic survival instincts Embrace the beast and shun the weak Awake the primal one that sleeps inside Or feel the shiver running through your spine"

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to lycanthropes.

    "He had kept the silver wolf’s head cane ornament that Claude Rains used to kill his lycanthropic son, Lon Chaney Jr., in “The Wolf Man” in 1941."

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"Lycanthropic survival instincts Embrace the beast and shun the weak Awake the primal one that sleeps inside Or feel the shiver running through your spine"

Etymology

From New Latin lycanthrōpus + -ic. By surface analysis, lycanthrope + -ic.

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