WITNESS / 352
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 352
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED reports the south-eastern variant uyende under the obsolete enemy sense. The record is source-reported and the manuscript object was not directly inspected.
Present-Day English1340established
fiend
Enemy in feudal context
“deþ in-to þe hond of his uyende”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 1340
- LOCATOR
- Ayenbite, p. 19
- 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