Of those [spirits] who rebelled some became devils, fiends or archfiends, according to the manifold proportions of their transgression.

Seven chief demons, seven archfiends, aid Ahriman in his struggle against the forces of light.

In disobedience to his God,
Did man himself call down the rod?
Or did th’ arch-fiend, from Heav’n that fell,
Inspire the mischief to rebel?

1690, anonymous translator, The Royal Wanton (attributed to Gregorio Leti), London: F.B., Part 5, p. 48,
[…] her Arch-fiend and Devil of a Lord, had impudently sent the same Villain to abuse her once again.

[…] in every hamlet of the United States where motion pictures were shown, bug-eyed filmgoers stared in horror at the celluloid villanies of the Huns, led by that archfiend Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Beast of Berlin.

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