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Definition of Archfoe
1. a principal foe [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archfoe
Literary usage of Archfoe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1912)
"... on occasion, directed against the archfoe of civil and religious liberty both
within and beyond his dominions—Louis XIV. She died in 1723, ..."
2. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1905)
"... relation of dependence on the archfoe of the empire from which he never
altogether escaped, though at the time of his death the cord had nearly snapped. ..."
3. The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, 1783-1919 by George Peabody Gooch (1922)
"But, though Austria had thus been enabled to resume the design, with which she
had entered into the War, of crushing her archfoe, and though bankrupt France ..."
4. The German Socialist Party: Champion of the First Republic, 1918-1933 by William Harvey Maehl (1986)
"The KPD was in abject servitude to its fugleman, Stalin, the archfoe of the West.
Moreover, the KPD had succumbed to egregious delusions with respect to the ..."
5. Central Asia and the World: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan by Michael Mandelbaum (1994)
"4' One manifestation of this is Russia's almost reckless abandon in selling
advanced weapons systems to its erstwhile archfoe. While Russia is preoccupied ..."
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