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Fury

proper nouncommon in dialogue

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A female personification of vengeance.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female personification of vengeance.

    “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,[…]!”

Etymology

Friom Middle English Furie, from Latin Furiae, a name used for the three Erinyes, being the plural of furia ("rage").

Forms

plural
Furies
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