WITNESS / 351
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 351
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED reports this early enemy-or-foe occurrence and notes possible Old English composition. The manuscript object was not directly inspected, and the displayed year is a source-reported horizon rather than a precise copying date.
Present-Day Englisha1225, possibly composed in Old Englishestablished
fiend
Friend-versus-foe contrast
“Ac þis ȝesceod he hadde isett bi-tweone frend and fend”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 1225
- LOCATOR
- Old English Homilies, 1st Series, p. 231
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfiend ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1167 ↗
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