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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED uses Nero as an early example of the malevolent or cruel-person sense. The underlying damaged manuscript object was not directly inspected.
Old Englishearly Old English, source-reportedestablished
fēond
Metres of Boethius, Nero as a wicked person
“Hwæt, se feond swa ðeah his diorlingas duguðum stepte”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 900
- LOCATOR
- Metres of Boethius xv. 7
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfēond ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1166 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Oxford English Dictionary — fiend, n., revised 2026
- AUTHOR
- Oxford English Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Oxford University Press
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- oed-fiend-2026