black mass.

A rite represented as an inversion or parody of the Christian Mass, often associated with accounts of devil worship.

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Words that belong together

• accounts of a black mass
• a purported black mass

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The witness described a purported black mass but could not agree on what had been performed.

The novel’s black mass inverted the liturgy its narrator remembered.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular black mass; plural black masses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.