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OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED reports this malevolent-person use. It is a source-reported lexicographic occurrence, not a directly inspected primary object.
Present-Day English1694established
fiend
Fiend incarnate as a person
“Revenge..makes a man a fiend incarnate”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 1694
- LOCATOR
- F. Bragge, Practical Discourses, p. 152
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfiend ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1167 ↗
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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