foeman
Americannoun
PLURAL
foemennoun
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Origin of foeman
before 1000; Middle English foman, Old English fāhman. See foe, man
Example Sentences
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At that moment, a foeman's dart, that he dashed aside, mutilated his hand.
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No; Reason, as party-strife goes, As food is attractive to no men: And Logic's a nauseous dose, To be given—as physic—to foemen!
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I directed the gunner to aim at the foeman's spars, endeavouring to cripple her aloft.
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The ardor of the combat is bracing; and fate is a foeman worthy of every man’s steel.
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And what was the profit of all the plotting, and all the unjust warfare, waged by men single or in masses against those they considered their foemen?
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