WITNESS / 358
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 358
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED reports the modern plural under the demon sense. The source object was not directly inspected and no frequency claim is made.
Present-Day English2017established
fiend
Modern plural evil spirits
“a host of hellish fiends”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 2017
- LOCATOR
- T. M. Lakomy, The Shadow Crucible, p. 210
- 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