fiendship
fiendship noun: the state, quality, or condition of being a fiend.
Noun
fiendship (uncountable)
- 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.1849, Sidney Smith, The Mother Country, page 118
- But more than these individual points of comparision^([sic]) makes brothers in fiendship the Devils of poem and plays.1978, Mediaevalia, volumes 3-4, page 222
- Synonyms:
- fiendhood
Synonyms of fiendship
Origin of fiendship
From Middle English feondscipe, from Old English fēondsċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *fijandskapi, equivalent to fiend + -ship.
Questions about fiendship
- What does fiendship mean?
- Fiendship means the state, quality, or condition of being a fiend.
- What part of speech is fiendship?
- Fiendship is a noun.
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