Meanings
- uncountableThe state, quality, or condition of being a fiend.
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 2221 more example
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 118Synonyms: fiendhood
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state, quality, or condition of being a fiend.
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*fijandskapi
- Old Englishfēondsċiepe
- Middle Englishfeondscipe
- Englishfiendship
From Middle English feondscipe, from Old English fēondsċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *fijandskapi, equivalent to fiend + -ship.
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