fiendship

English

Etymology

From Middle English feondscipe, from Old English fēondsċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *fijandskapi, equivalent to fiend +‎ -ship.

Noun

fiendship (uncountable)

1. The state, quality, or condition of being a fiend.

   Synonym: fiendhood

   • 1849, Sidney Smith, The Mother Country, page 118:

     Nay, perhaps, mankind being possessed of a given quantity of devil, it is doubtful whether to check its fiendship in its straightforward course, but drives it to break out unnaturally in another place.

   • 1978, Mediaevalia, volumes 3-4, page 222:

     But more than these individual points of comparision^[sic] makes brothers in fiendship the Devils of poem and plays.