2. Noun. a diabolically evil person ¹
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Definition of Archfiend
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archfiend
Literary usage of Archfiend
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli by Pasquale Villari (1892)
"... on Anger and the methods of its cure "—' ' The tale of the archfiend ... archfiend ..."
2. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1890)
"O'er all the dreary coasts, So stretched out, huge in length, the archfiend lag.
To invert and say,' Lay the archfiend,' would impair the metre. ..."
3. The Epic of Paradise Lost: Twelve Essays by Marianna Woodhull (1907)
"... and has learned from the lips of Adam and Eve the means of their undoing, the
archfiend even looks about for more angels from whom he may gain details ..."
4. The Life of Laurence Sterne by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1864)
"Mr. Botham," indisposed to countenance the further progress of the attachment,
and about to play in a mitigated shape the part of " archfiend," and enter ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"The speeches of the archfiend are as like the harangues of the heathen warriors "
as two peas," and where epithets are not readily found in the Sacred ..."
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