Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fiendship

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fiend-ship
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state, quality, or condition of being a fiend.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"But more than these individual points of comparision^([sic]) makes brothers in fiendship the Devils of poem and plays."

Etymology

From Middle English feondscipe, from Old English fēondsċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *fijandskapi, equivalent to fiend + -ship.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: feondscipe, fēondsċiepe, *fijandskapi
Suffix: fiend

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

fiendhood

Questions

What does fiendship mean?: The state, quality, or condition of being a fiend.
Where does fiendship come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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