"archfiend" meaning in All languages combined

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        "2": "Erzfeind"
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      "expansion": "German Erzfeind",
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        "2": "aartsvijand"
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  "etymology_text": "From arch- + fiend. Compare German Erzfeind, Dutch aartsvijand.",
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          "_dis": "66 12 22",
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          "ref": "1886, Charles Bigg, The Christian Platonists of Alexandria, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, Lecture 6, p. 197",
          "text": "Of those [spirits] who rebelled some became devils, fiends or archfiends, according to the manifold proportions of their transgression.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Jeffrey Burton Russell, chapter 3, in The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity,, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, page 115",
          "text": "Seven chief demons, seven archfiends, aid Ahriman in his struggle against the forces of light.",
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        "A chief fiend (devil, demon or monster)."
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          "devil",
          "devil#English"
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          "demon",
          "demon#English"
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          "monster",
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        {
          "word": "archdemon"
        },
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          "word": "archdevil"
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        {
          "ref": "1759, William Kenrick, Epistles Philosophical and Moral, London: T. Wilcox, Epistle 6, page 210",
          "text": "In disobedience to his God,\nDid man himself call down the rod?\nOr did th’ arch-fiend, from Heav’n that fell,\nInspire the mischief to rebel?",
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        "Satan."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(preceded by “the”, often capitalized) Satan."
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        {
          "text": "1690, anonymous translator, The Royal Wanton (attributed to Gregorio Leti), London: F.B., Part 5, p. 48,\n[…] her Arch-fiend and Devil of a Lord, had impudently sent the same Villain to abuse her once again."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, Irving Werstein, Shattered Decade: 1919-1929, New York: Scribner, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 17",
          "text": "[…] in every hamlet of the United States where motion pictures were shown, bug-eyed filmgoers stared in horror at the celluloid villanies of the Huns, led by that archfiend Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Beast of Berlin.",
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        }
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        "A diabolically evil person."
      ],
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          "diabolical",
          "diabolical"
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        "(transferred sense) A diabolically evil person."
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          "_dis1": "2 2 96",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "a diabolically evil person",
          "word": "ĉeffripono"
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          "demon",
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        },
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          "ref": "1970, Irving Werstein, Shattered Decade: 1919-1929, New York: Scribner, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 17",
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        "(transferred sense) A diabolically evil person."
      ]
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a diabolically evil person",
      "word": "ĉeffripono"
    }
  ],
  "word": "archfiend"
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