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Webster 1913 Edition

Fury

Fu′ry

,
Noun.
[L.
fur
.]
A thief.
[Obs.]
Have an eye to your plate, for there be
furies
.
J. Fleteher.

Fu′ry

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Furies
(#)
.
[L.
furia
, fr.
furere
to rage: cf. F.
furie
. Cf.
Furor
.]
1.
Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
Her wit began to be with a divine
fury
inspired.
Sir P. Sidney.
2.
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; – sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
“Fury of the wind.”
Shak.
I do oppose my patience to his
fury
.
Shakespeare
3.
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.
Emerson.
4.
One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
[R.]
Comes the blind
Fury
with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
Milton.
Syn. – Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See
Anger
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fury

FU'RY

,
Noun.
[L. furor, furia, furo, to rage.]
1.
A violent rushing; impetuous motion; as the fury of the winds.
2.
Rage; a storm of anger; madness; turbulence.
I do oppose my patience to his fury.
3.
Enthusiasm; heat of the mind.
4.
In mythology, a deity; a goddess of vengeance; hence, a stormy turbulent, violent woman.

Definition 2024

Fury

Fury

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English

Proper noun

Fury ‎(plural Furies)

  1. (Greek mythology) Female personification of vengeance (Wikipedia).
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VI”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      “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, […]!”

Translations

fury

fury

See also: Fury

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfjʊri/

Noun

fury ‎(countable and uncountable, plural furies)

  1. Extreme anger.
  2. Strength or violence in action.
    • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VI”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
      “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, […]!”
  3. An angry or malignant person.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Latin fur ‎(“thief”).

Noun

fury ‎(plural furies)

  1. (obsolete) A thief.
    • J. Fletcher
      Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.

Etymology

From the Latin furia ("rage")

Pronunciation

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