NOUN
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an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies
How To Use foeman In A Sentence
- All foemen in pity beweep his woes; * Ah for freke whom the foeman pitieth! Arabian nights. English
- It is; for he was his country's foe, though not a foeman born. The Phoenissae
- Exhaustively knowledgeable about the science of cognition, and a foeman who gives as good as he gets (if not better) in the nature-versus-nurture culture wars, Pinker seemed the perfect foil for some of my ideas about the IQ test. Boing Boing
- The reading of the 1st ed. and that of 1821; "foeman" in many recent eds. The Lady of the Lake
- Ere the Christian could avail himself of this mishap, his nimble foeman sprung from the ground, and, calling on his steed, which instantly returned to his side, he leaped into his seat without touching the stirrup, and regained all the advantage of which the Knight of the Leopard hoped to deprive him. The Talisman
- They appreciated him as a foeman worthy of their intellect, and they listened intently, following every word. Chapter 38
- I think I would have demurred, though, at invitations to sit with someone who had previously made wide and spectacularly false anti-union claims in the purest of bad faith, blatantly lied about me and my work, and shown himself, frankly, not to be a foeman worthy of my steel. Archive 2009-06-01
- Some foeman draws anigh our host, or thieves maybe, or spies. Rhesus
- I tell you, Watson, this time we have got a foeman who is worthy of our steel. The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
- A third time he approached in the same manner, when the Christian knight, desirous to terminate this elusory warfare, in which he might at length have been worn out by the activity of his foeman, suddenly seized the mace which hung at his saddlebow, and, with a strong hand and unerring aim, hurled it against the head of the Emir, for such and not less his enemy appeared. The Talisman