单词 | hell-fiend |
释义 | > as lemmashell-fiend hell-fiend n. a fiend or devil; a fiendish or fiendlike person. ΚΠ c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 8366 Her faders lordes & frende Were so slawe wiþ helle-fende. 1655 E. Elys Dia Poemata 1 Hell fiends need walk no more; the World's their own, Converted to an Apparition. 1706 N. Strong England's Perfect School-master (ed. 9) 61 He's like Hell-fiends that sport with evil too. 1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate II. xii. 42 The will of man..may bring down angels out of heaven, or raise hell-fiends from the fathomless abyss. 1928 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 25 Nov. This is the same hell-fiend who, in August, 1923, murdered Theodore Lockhart in cold blood. 2001 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 19 Oct. 24 It is a disappointing hell-fiend in an unoriginal latex mask. < as lemmas |
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