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fiendom

noun

Etymology

From fiend + -dom.

  1. derived from *peh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *fijandz✻
  3. inherited from *fijand✻
  4. inherited from fēond — “enemy”
  5. inherited from fend
  6. suffixed as fiendom — “fiend + dom”

Definitions

  1. The state, sphere, realm, or world of fiends

    The state, sphere, realm, or world of fiends; fiends, collectively.

    • Here all is confusion worse confounded: the multitude opens its thousand throats of brass; the steeds are frantic; the jockeys (born and bred devils from their cradle) practise every conceivable stratagem ever hatched in Fiendom; [...]
    • Only now and then the spirits (who, as I understand it, occupy a rank in fienddom definitely below that of the devils) stir up trouble.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA