Hellspawn

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A creature or creatures from hell.

    "Despite his grim mien, his kinship with vein-biters and hellspawns, Batman always maintained one pious virtue, his unspoken insistence on the value—the sacredness—of human life."

  2. 2
    Any monster; a vicious fiend or villain. broadly

Example

More examples

"Despite his grim mien, his kinship with vein-biters and hellspawns, Batman always maintained one pious virtue, his unspoken insistence on the value—the sacredness—of human life."

Etymology

From hell + spawn.

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