Meaning of fury | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Extreme anger.
   countable, uncountable
2. A thief.
   obsolete
3. Extreme anger
4. A female personification of vengeance.
   Greek
5. Strength or violence in action.
   countable, uncountable
6. Strength or violence in action
7. An angry or malignant person.
   countable, uncountable
8. An angry or malignant person
9. A thief

Equivalents

Examples

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

“The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury.”

“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.”

“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,[…]!”

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

““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,[…]!””

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