English

Alternative forms

• feydom

Noun

faydom ‎(uncountable)

1. The state of being fay or doomed.
2. (dialectal) A portent, usually of death; doom.
   • 2005, John Dover Wilson, What happens in Hamlet:

     Hamlet is fey, as heroes have been since the dawn of literature ; but was ever feydom so wonderfully set forth, or a doomed hero more adorable?

   • 1998, George Wyman Bury, The land of Uz:

     He merely got tantalizing scraps of information flung at him from the boundary wall of faydom.

   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Household words:

     [...] far more reduced kingdom of Magic. I am the case of real distress. I am the Magician without a shoe to stand on. My glory is departed — mine, Ichabod the Magician. Before faydom existed, was Magic, awful, erect, weird, inscrutable.