fiend

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FIEND, noun [See Feud, contention.] An enemy in the worst sense; an implacable or malicious foe; the devil; an infernal being. O woman! woman! when to ill thy mind is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend
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