WITNESS / 354
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 354
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED reports the Devil sense in a Middle English witness. This is a source-reported quotation, not a directly inspected manuscript object.
Present-Day Englishcirca 1405, composed circa 1390established
fiend
The Devil’s snare
“Cristes myght That helpeth folk out of the feendes snare”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 1405
- LOCATOR
- Chaucer, Man of Law’s Tale, line 571
- 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