hellspawn
noun/ˈhɛl.spɔːn/
Etymology From hell + spawn.
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Fantasy 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.1994, Dennis O’Neil, Batman: Knightfall, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 348:
- Image Animation also fabricated the hellspawns’ bondage-inspired costumes, substituting foam material for the more expensive leather of the previous two films.1996, Anthony Timpone, Men, Makeup, and Monsters: Hollywood’s Masters of Illusion and FX, St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 179:
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- The face and voice were beyond question those of the man who had died to protect her in a room full of hellspawn and slaughter.1998, David Drake, Queen of Demons, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 115:
- “The door was ajar. Not so smart for a young Nightwing-in-training—especially when he’s got one of those filthy hellspawns in his hands.”2003, Geoffrey Huntington [pseudonym; William J. Mann], “A Deadly Duel”, in Demon Witch (The Ravenscliff Series; II), ReganBooks, →ISBN, page 111:
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Broadly Any monster; a vicious fiend or villain.