Faydom

Alternative forms

• feydom

Origin

From fay("fated, doomed") + -dom.

Full definition of faydom

Noun

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.