† hellhoodn.
Obsolete.
With possessive adjective, as your hellhood: a mock title or form of address given to a diabolical character; = hellness n.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > inhabitant of > state or personality of
hellhood1592
hellness1606
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Huntington Libr. copy) sig. A4 v It might seeme good to your hel-hood, to make extent vpon the soules of a number of vncharitable cormorants.
1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. C8v To sacrifice themselues..and all that they esteeme deerest vnto them, to his infernall Hell-hood.
1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker ii. sig. D3v We might have done some fine thing To have made thy hel-hood laugh.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1592- anti-inflationary
- anti-inflationist
- anti-innovationist
- anti-innovator
- anti-jacobin
- anti-jacobinism
- anti-japanese
- anti-japanism
- anti-jewish
- anti-king
- anti-knock
- anti-latinist
- anti-left
- anti-levelling
- anti-liberal
- anti-liberalism
- anti-libertarian
- anti-life
- anti-litter
- anti-littering
- anti-liturgical
- anti-liturgist
- anti-lock
- anti-locking
- anti-locust