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1.
fō-man
n.
Additional spellings:
foman
40 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) A personal enemy, one who hates or tries to injure another, a foe; (b) an enemy of God, an evil-doer; (c) the enemy of a vice.
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2.
feied
ppl.
11 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) At enmity, hostile;
fig.
on bad terms (with God); (b)
ben feied with
, to be an enemy of (someone); (c) treated or regarded as an enemy, hated.
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