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Archenemy

Archenemy \Arch`en"e*my\, n. [Pref. arch- + enemy.] A principal enemy. Specifically, Satan, the grand adversary of mankind.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
archenemy

also arch-enemy, 1540s, from arch- + enemy.

Wiktionary
archenemy

alt. a principal enemy n. a principal enemy

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ArchEnemy

ArchEnemy is a 2009 science-fiction and fantasy novel by Frank Beddor and the third novel of the Looking Glass Wars trilogy. The book was published on October 15, 2009 by Dial Press and is heavily inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

Archenemy (disambiguation)

Archenemy is the principal enemy of a character in a work of fiction

The term may also refer to:

  • Arch Enemy, Swedish death-metal band
  • Archenemy Record Company
  • ArchEnemies, comics
  • ArchEnemy, in the series The Looking Glass Wars.
  • Archenemy (Magic: The Gathering)
  • ArchEnemy, a 2009 science-fiction and fantasy novel by Frank Beddor

Usage examples of "archenemy".

His archenemy had learned of Sera, undoubtedly from the rumors flitting about East Chatham.

But his wrath flared hotly against his archenemy, the King of the Franks.

An archenemy of mine once used it as a disguise in an attempt to deceive me.

She barreled along the desert highway, dodging busses, cars, giant boulders launched by her archenemy, Wile E.

Pretending to worship Rhaeie, they sold out to the archenemy Dayu like whores spreading their legs for copper trinkets.

Hitler is not only the archenemy of Germany: he is the archenemy of the world.

It is only fair to add that Gisevius, archenemy of Hitler, Himmler and Schellenberg, believes - as he testified at Nuremberg and in his book - that Elser really attempted to kill Hitler and that there were no Nazi accomplices.

He was always the archenemy and Carrie was invariably his evil assistant.

It might be thought that as a citizen of England, still technically at war with France, our archenemy would put himself into some considerable danger by so doing-but he may well have managed to get himself accredited somehow as a delegate to the peace talks.

Alkyoneus, the archenemy of the gods, appeared, clad in rattling strips and chains of metal armor, inspiring the Giant forces to renewed efforts.

Feronte-bigot, satyr, artist in villainy, refined in cruelty, bloody even in his pleasures may truly be called Archenemy of Liberty.

Inglewood were rooted in part in a visceral hatred of labor unions, a hatred that caused it to overreact to the provocations of its archenemy, the United Food and Commercial Workers.

Whatever, they're holy and precious not only to the Orthodox factions but to the Church, the Eremitics, the Scottites, the Canonics, the Cynics, the Ascetics, the Renunciates, and several Hanite creeds for whom Terrell is only a minor prophet or even an emissary of the archenemy.

Whatever, they’re holy and precious not only to the Orthodox factions but to the Church, the Eremitics, the Scottites, the Canonics, the Cynics, the Ascetics, the Renunciates, and several Hanite creeds for whom Terrell is only a minor prophet or even an emissary of the archenemy.

There were twenty-five Comanches in the Club, or twenty-five legitimate living descendants of the Laughing Man--all of us circulating ominously, and incognito, throughout the city, sizing up elevator operators as potential archenemies, whispering side-of-the-mouth but fluent orders into the ears of cocker spaniels, drawing beads, with index fingers, on the foreheads of arithmetic teachers.