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Fury

//ˈfjʊə.ɹi// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female personification of vengeance. Greek

    "“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,[…]!”"

Noun
  1. 1
    Extreme anger. countable, uncountable

    "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd."

  2. 2
    A thief. obsolete

    "But have an eye to your plate , for there be Furies."

  3. 3
    the property of being wild or turbulent wordnet
  4. 4
    Strength or violence in action. countable, uncountable

    "Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide, / And with the winde in greater furie fret: / The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt."

  5. 5
    a feeling of intense anger wordnet
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  1. 6
    An angry or malignant person. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals wordnet
  3. 8
    state of violent mental agitation wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English furie, from Old French furie, from Latin furia (“rage”).

Etymology 2

Latin fur (“thief”).

Etymology 3

Friom Middle English Furie, from Latin Furiae, a name used for the three Erinyes, being the plural of furia ("rage").

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