† hellhoodn.
Obsolete.
With possessive adjective, as your hellhood: a mock title or form of address given to a diabolical character; = hellness n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > inhabitant of > state or personality of
hellhood1592
hellness1606
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Huntington Libr. copy) sig. A4 v It might seeme good to your hel-hood, to make extent vpon the soules of a number of vncharitable cormorants.
1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. C8v To sacrifice themselues..and all that they esteeme deerest vnto them, to his infernall Hell-hood.
1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker ii. sig. D3v We might have done some fine thing To have made thy hel-hood laugh.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1592- quick-self-lessening
- quick-seller
- quick-sensedness
- quick-service
- quick-set
- quick-setting
- quick-shifting
- quick-shod
- quick-shutting
- quick-side
- quick-sighted
- quick-sightedness
- quick-speeding
- quick-spirited
- quick-spouting
- quick-spread
- quick-sprighted
- quick-spring
- quick-springing
- quick-spur
- quick-start
- quick-stepping
- quick-stick
- quick-surprising
- quick-talking