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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED reports this early modern Devil use. The quoted edition record was not directly inspected in this dossier.
Present-Day English1608established
fiend
Foul Fiend as Devil
“Beware the foule fiend”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 1608
- LOCATOR
- Shakespeare, King Lear, scene xiii, line 8
- 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