fiendship

English

Etymology

fiend +‎ -ship

Noun

fiendship (uncountable)

  1. The state, quality, or condition of being a fiend.
    Synonym: fiendhood
    • 1849, Sidney Smith, The Mother Country, page 118:
      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.
    • 1978, Mediaevalia (volumes 3-4, page 222)
      But more than these individual points of comparision makes brothers in fiendship the Devils of poem and plays.
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