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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

... discreet girl to turn the edge of my fury. All the gibes and annoyances of the past months rushed into my mind, and set my head throbbing. I was angry, but very cool with it all, for I saw that the matter had now gone too far for tolerance. ...

— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan

... moment for Nicodemus. He sat there in the council, and saw the fury of his brother judges. In his heart he was a friend of Jesus. He believed that he was the Messiah. Loyalty to his friend, to the truth, and to his own conscience, demanded that he should cast away the veil he was wearing, and reveal his faith in Jesus. At least he must say some word on behalf of ...

— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller

... see, when I was full of this splendid determination to sacrifice myself so as to make you happy, I used to feel a regular fury come over me because Hagbart noticed no change in me—or, to be more correct, did not understand it in the least. He used to go about as if he were in a dream. Isn't it extraordinary how one thing ...

— Three Comedies • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson

... on it!" was the thought of Flora and the detective in the same instant. It filled her veins with fury, yet her response was gentle and meditative. "To me," she said, "it seemed such a good-for-nothing that even if I saw it is gone, me, I think I wouldn' have take' notice." All at once she brightened: "Anna! ...

— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable

... fury, brave Kalinga fell in twain, Scattered fled his countless forces, when they saw ...

— Maha-bharata - The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse • Anonymous

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