Furies

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of fury form-of, plural
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Erinyes; the goddesses of vengeance. Greek

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alectoavengerburning rageerinyeserinyesfurious rage

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""Mark then my words and in your breasts retain. / What Jove, the Sire omnipotent, of old / revealed to Phoebus, and to me again / Phoebus Apollo at his hest foretold, / I now to thee and thine, the Furies' Queen, unfold.""

Etymology

From Latin Furiae.

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