WITNESS / 353
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 353
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED reports this Middle English demon comparison. The manuscript object was not directly inspected, and the representative year does not collapse composition and copying dates.
Present-Day Englishcirca 1330, possibly composed before 1300established
fiend
Demon-like being
“He semes as it were a fende, Þat comen were out of helle”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 1330
- LOCATOR
- Guy of Warwick, Auchinleck manuscript, p. 430
- 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