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fiendship

noun

Etymology

From Middle English feondscipe, from Old English fēondsċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *fijandskapi, equivalent to fiend + -ship.

  1. inherited from *fijandskapi✻
  2. inherited from fēondsċiepe
  3. inherited from feondscipe

Definitions

  1. The state, quality, or condition of being a fiend.

    • Nay, perhaps, mankind being possessed of a given quantity of devil, it is doubtful whether to check its fiendship in its straightforward course, but drives it to break out unnaturally in another place.
    • But more than these individual points of comparision^([sic]) makes brothers in fiendship the Devils of poem and plays.

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