fury
See also: Fury
English
Etymology 1
From Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”)
Noun
fury (countable and uncountable, plural furies)
- Extreme anger.
- Strength or violence in action.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto), London: Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, […]!
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- An angry or malignant person.
Derived terms
Translations
extreme anger
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strength or violence in action
an angry or malignant person
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