[OE. féondscipe, f. féond, FIEND + -scipe, -SHIP.] † a. Enmity (obs.). b. [A new formation.] The personality of a fiend.
a. 900. trans. Bædas Hist., III. xiv. (1890), 208. He þær wrecca wæs Rædwaldes feondscipe fleah.
c. 1205. Lay., 22965.
Æft ȝif on uolke | |
feond-scipe arereð | |
an æur æi time | |
bitweone twon monnen. |
1874. M. & F. Collins, Frances, I. 104. Chaos is come again, if we may believe his Fiendship: there is no God, no cosmos, no light.