Do I need to capitalize the devil?

Question

I'm writing a paper on religion and its effect on the European peasants and I'm not sure if the word devil, refering to the thing, should be capitalize

Answer 1

Well, it depends how much you want the devil to be involved in your work. You could capitalize it when talking about the Spectacle of religious marketing, where The Devil is like a copyright in an advertisement, or you can just talk about the devil as an accepted object in people's view. The promotional aspects have already been applied for a couple of thousand years.

Answer 2

Capitalize the word when it is being used as a proper name. It should be lower case when it is referring to a common , every day devil. In general, a hint I use for my students is that if the word "the" or "a" appears before the noun, then it is a common noun with lower case letters. So in your paper, you will sometimes capitalize the word, and sometimes use lower case.
Example: The devil’s premise in Matthew 4... or
Devil, get thee behind me.

Students often have a similar problem with words like dad/Dad, mom/MOM, principal/Principal. The rule is the same. Used as proper title, direct address, or name, it gets a capital letter. Hope this sorts things out for you.

Answer 3

Capitalize God, but never capitalize devil

Answer 4

You do not capitalize devil. It is the name of his "species" like dog or cat. You do capitalize his names like Satan or Lucifer.

Answer 5

No it is not a pronoun. Only cap when using the proper names for him

Answer 6

Yes it is a proper noun, or a title/name

Answer 7

I think that if your not starting it with a sentesnce and your just writing in the middle or ending with it dont captalize it.

Answer 8

Only if you call it by a proper name like Satan or Lucifer

Answer 9

if ur just using it as a general term then no...but if its a proper name then yes

Answer 10

I think it should since it is a proper noun.