FURY

ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness

(noun) the property of being wild or turbulent; “the storm’s violence”

fury, rage, madness

(noun) a feeling of intense anger; “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”; “his face turned red with rage”

Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes

(noun) (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria

(noun) state of violent mental agitation

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Proper noun

Fury (plural Furies)

(Greek mythology) A female personification of vengeance.

Etymology 1

Noun

fury (countable and uncountable, plural furies)

Extreme anger.

Strength or violence in action.

An angry or malignant person.

Etymology 2

Noun

fury (plural furies)

(obsolete) A thief.

Source: Wiktionary


Fu"ry, n. Etym: [L. fur.]

Definition: A thief. [Obs.] Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. J. Fleteher.

Fu"ry, n.; pl. Furies. Etym: [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie. Cf. Furor.]

1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. Sir P. Sidney.

2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." Shak. I do oppose my patience to his fury. Shak.

3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him. Emerson.

4. One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin- spun life. Milton.

5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

Syn.

– Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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