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noun

Fury n. A thief. (Obs.) "Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies."

Fury n. (pl. furies)

Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. "Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired."

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."

Pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; 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."

One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos. (R.) "Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life."

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

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

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"Fury" Quotes from Famous Books

... "The fury of the poet is on him. I must not complain," she thought, and yet a certain regret darkened her face. "All that was so sweet and fine has passed out of our intercourse," she sadly admitted to herself. "I am no longer ...

— The Light of the Star - A Novel • Hamlin Garland

... to us, eh?" the barber's apprentice cried, as if in a fury. "You stand here and say that, after what has happened ...

— Under the Liberty Tree - A Story of The 'Boston Massacre' • James Otis

... asleep, it was some minutes ere he realized what had befallen him or whither he was going, and the first warning he had of this rush straight upon certain destruction was the dull roar of the distant whirlpool, which, the tide being now full ebb, was just at the height of its fury. ...

— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 • Various

... stops at stations, to rest and let the locomotive roll itself a cigarette. By the time we reached San Sebastian our rain had thickened to a heavy downpour, and by the time we mounted to our rooms, three pair up in the hotel, it was storming in a fine fury over the bay under them, and sweeping the curving quays and tossing the feathery foliage of the tamarisk-shaded promenade. The distinct advantage of our lofty perch was the splendid sight of the tempest, held from doing its worst by the mighty headlands standing out to sea on the right and left. ...

— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells

... to the floor with such force that it was shattered to pieces. He tore open the collar of his shirt, so violent was the paroxysm of fury that had seized him, and with the broken arm of the chair in his hand, he sprang at Janina to strike her, but the cold, almost scornful, expression of her face brought ...

— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont

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