How do you use the word "fiend" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "fiend" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "fiend": As he stood there he might have been a fiend. So spake the Fiend, and backward to the wood / soared on the wing.

Fiend Meaning

/ˈfiːnd/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.

nounA very evil person.

Sentence Examples

As he stood there he might have been a fiend.

So spake the Fiend, and backward to the wood / soared on the wing.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

monster demon devil

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

He was an absolute coffee ____, needing at least five cups to start his day.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

In the old story, a terrible ____ haunted the woods, scaring anyone who dared to enter after dark.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English fend, feend (“enemy; demon”), from Old English fēond (“enemy”), Proto-West Germanic *fijand, from Proto-Germanic *fijandz. Cognates Cognate with Scots fient (“fiend”), Saterland Frisian Fäind (“enemy, fiend, foe”), Cimbrian faint (“enemy, fiend”), Dutch vijand (“enemy”), German Feind (“enemy, fiend, foe”), Vilamovian faeind, fajnd (“enemy”), Yiddish פֿײַנד (faynd), פֿײַנט (faynt, “enemy”), Danish fjende (“adversary, enemy, foe”), Icelandic fjandi (“enemy; fiend, demon, devil”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish fiende (“enemy”), Old Norse fjándi (“enemy; devil”), Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (fiands), 𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (fijands, “enemy, foe”). The Old Norse and Gothic terms are present participles of the corresponding verbs fjá/𐍆𐌹𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fijan, “to hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate”) (compare Sanskrit पीयति (pī́yati, “(he) reviles”)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"what God or Feend, or ſpirit of the earth, Or Monſter turned to a manly ſhape, Or of what mould or mettel he be made, […]" — c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:

"Many hold too that he was acquainted with forbidden arts, and used to carry on an intercourse with the fiends and old women that raised storms, and such like." — 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 315:

"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" — 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC:

"He proffered a pact to Satan, calling upon the Fiend and working himself into a frenzy - but his infernal majesty failed to respond." — 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 119:

"At the confirmation ceremony the bishop would lay his hands on the child and tie around its forehead a linen band […]. This was believed to strengthen him against the assaults of the fiend […]" — 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 35:

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