fury

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  "I WAS FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE AMONGST A CROWD OF FURIES."
• WordNet 3.6
  • n fury the property of being wild or turbulent "the storm's violence"
  • n fury a feeling of intense anger "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned","his face turned red with rage"
  • n Fury (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
  • n fury state of violent mental agitation
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The Fury waves her torch and stops the people at the banquet table eating

• • Fury A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
  • n Fury A thief. "Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies ."
  • Fury One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos. "Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
    And slits the thin-spun life."
  • Fury 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."
  • Fury Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind.""I do oppose my patience to his fury ."
  • Fury Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. "Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired."
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• • n fury Extreme anger or rage; anger or wrath which overrides all self-control; a storm of anger; madness.
  • n fury Violent or impetuous action of any kind; vehement manifestation of force; violence.
  • n fury Enthusiasm; inspired or frenzied excitement of the mind.
  • n fury In classical mythology, one of the avenging deities, called in Greek mythology the Erinyes or, by euphemism, Eumenides, and by the Romans the Furiæ or Diræ, daughters of Earth or of Night, represented as fearful maidens, often winged, and with serpents twined in their hair, clad in dusky garments girdled with red. They dwelt in the depth of Tartarus, and, owing to their dread power of avenging wrong, whetherintentional or not, were feared by gods and men. According to fully developed Greek tradition, they were three in number and called Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra. They relentlessly punished crime, especially breaches of piety and hospitality, both before and after death. They were therefore also regarded as goddesses of fate, in common with the Parcæ; hence the use of the name in the extract from Milton.
  • n fury Hence A minister or a concentrated manifestation of vengeance; an avenging or vengeful personality, principle, or action.
  • n fury A thief.
  • n fury Synonyms Vexation, Indignation, etc. See anger1 and Violence, vehemence, tempestuousness, fierceness, frenzy.
  • fury To infuriate; agitate violently.
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• • n Fury fū′ri rage: violent passion: madness:
  • n Fury fū′ri (myth.) one of the three goddesses of fate and vengeance, the Erinyes, or euphemistically Eumenides—Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra—hence a passionate, violent woman.
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• William Congreve

  

  “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
• Francis Quarles

  

  “Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.”
• Logan Pearsall Smith

  

  “The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.”
• Bertrand Russell

  

  “Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.”
• Joseph Addison

  

  “I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
• Dick Gregory

  

  “Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.”

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