hellspawn
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hellspawn (plural hellspawn or hellspawns)
- (fantasy) A creature or creatures from hell.
- 1994, Dennis O’Neil, Batman: Knightfall, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 348:
- 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.
- 1996, Anthony Timpone, Men, Makeup, and Monsters: Hollywood’s Masters of Illusion and FX, St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 179:
- Image Animation also fabricated the hellspawns’ bondage-inspired costumes, substituting foam material for the more expensive leather of the previous two films.
- 1998, David Drake, Queen of Demons, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 115:
- 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.
- 2003, Geoffrey Huntington [pseudonym; William J. Mann], “A Deadly Duel”, in Demon Witch (The Ravenscliff Series; II), ReganBooks, →ISBN, page 111:
- “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.”
- (by extension) Any monster; a vicious fiend or villain.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]creature(s) from Hell
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monster — see monster
fiend — see fiend