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fiendom

fiendom noun: the state, sphere, realm, or world of fiends; fiends, collectively.

Noun

fiendom (uncountable)

  1. 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; [...]1855, Donald Walker, John William Carleton, Walker's manly exercises
    • [...] 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.1871, Carl Schwartz, The Scattered Nation and Jewish Christian Magazine - Page 205

Forms of fiendom

alternative formfienddom

Origin of fiendom

From fiend + -dom.

Questions about fiendom

What does fiendom mean?
Fiendom means the state, sphere, realm, or world of fiends; fiends, collectively.
What part of speech is fiendom?
Fiendom is a noun.

Words near fiendom in the dictionary

  1. fiendlike
  2. fiendliness
  3. fiendling
  4. fiendlings
  5. fiendly
  6. fiendom
  7. fiends
  8. fiendship
  9. fiendy
  10. Fiene
  11. Fienen

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