Noun

(-)

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

*1855 , Donald Walker, John William Carleton, Walker's manly exercises :

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 ; [...]

*1871 , Carl Schwartz, The Scattered Nation and Jewish Christian Magazine - Page 205 :

[...] written in a sort of imaginary astral alphabet, to preserve the said Gudaika from the assaults of the whole crew of implacable fiendom , and from every possible ailment, which can better be imagined than I dare describe, from every species of evil eye.

*1984 , Patricia Ledyard, Friendly Isles: a tale of Tonga - Page 146 :

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.

Noun

(en noun)

The estate controlled by a feudal lord; a fief.

The duke's fiefdom had been greatly expanded as a reward for his dutiful military service on behalf of the king.

(by extension, mostly, pejorative) Any organization in the control of a dominant individual.

Most of our company's computers are standardized, but the IT director allows the employees in his own little fiefdom to specify their own machines.

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, year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France that he was best-placed to lead France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.}}