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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

... but in the dusk he saw her limbs sway with the swaying of the water, and her eyes were turned to him as if in mockery. At the sight blind fury filled him, and clambering over the rocks to the pool's edge he bent down and caught her by the shoulder. At that moment he could have strangled her with his hands, so abhorrent to him was the touch of her flesh; but as he cried out on her, heaping her with cruel names, ...

— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton

... delivered me, it is true. At that time had I reasoned with them, it would have been as drops upon a flame. They were bent on besieging thy palace, perhaps upon demanding thy abdication. I could not stifle their fury, but I could direct it. In the moment of passion, I led them from rebellion against our common king to victory against our common foe. That duty done, I come unscathed from the sword of the Christian to bare ...

— Leila, Complete - The Siege of Granada • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... 'n hell—an' if't was anybody but you brought the news I'd hit un awver the jaw!" burst out Mr. Blee, in a fury. ...

— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts

... a while to see whether the storm seemed to abate in its fury, but a brief space of time sufficed to assure him that, instead of diminishing, the violence of the rain and thunder momentarily increased; resigning himself, therefore, to what seemed inevitable, he bade his host good-night, and mounted the stairs. ...

— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... themselves with these means of self-defence. The silent sullen multitude marched in the dead of that spring-night to Rawfolds, and giving tongue with a great shout, roused Mr. Cartwright up to the knowledge that the long-expected attack was come. He was within walls, it is true; but against the fury of hundreds he had only four of his own workmen and five soldiers to assist him. These ten men, however, managed to keep up such a vigorous and well-directed fire of musketry that they defeated all the desperate attempts of the multitude outside to break ...

— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell

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