Fiendom vs Fiend - What's the difference?
fiendom | fiend | Derived terms |
The state, sphere, realm, or world of fiends; fiends, collectively.
*1855 , Donald Walker, John William Carleton, Walker's manly exercises :
*1871 , Carl Schwartz, The Scattered Nation and Jewish Christian Magazine - Page 205 :
*1984 , Patricia Ledyard, Friendly Isles: a tale of Tonga - Page 146 :
(obsolete) An enemy, unfriend, or foe.
(religious, archaic) The enemy of mankind, specifically, the Devil; Satan.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 35:
A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.
* 1845 , E.A. Poe, "The Raven"
A very evil person
(informal) An addict or fanatic
Fiendom is a derived term of fiend.
As nouns the difference between fiendom and fiend
is that fiendom is the state, sphere, realm, or world of fiends; fiends, collectively while fiend is (obsolete) an enemy, unfriend, or foe.fiendom
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*Noun
(-)- 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 ; [...]
- [...] 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.
- 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.
fiend
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* (l)Noun
(en noun)- At the confirmation ceremony the bishop would lay his hands on the child and tie around its forehead a linen band […]. This was believed to strengthen him against the assaults of the fiend […].
- "Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! "
- a jazz fiend
