fiendom

fiendom

English

Alternative forms

• fienddom

Etymology

From fiend +‎ -dom.

Noun

fiendom (uncountable)

1. The state, sphere, realm, or world of fiends; fiends, collectively.
   • 1855, Donald Walker, John William Carleton, Walker's manly exercises:

     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; [...]

   • 1871, Carl Schwartz, The Scattered Nation and Jewish Christian Magazine - Page 205:

     [...] 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.

   • 1984, Patricia Ledyard, Friendly Isles: a tale of Tonga - Page 146:

     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.