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Furore

noun
(Also spelled furor)
1.
An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.  Synonyms: craze, cult, fad, furor, rage.  "It was all the rage that season"
2.
A sudden outburst (as of protest).  Synonym: furor.






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"Furore" Quotes from Famous Books



... mentem excoquat quam qui caminis ignis Aetnaeis furit: ut possit animo captus Alcides agi magno furore percitus, nobis prius insaniendum est—Iuno, cur nondum furis? me me, sorores, mente deiectam mea versate primam, facere si quicquam apparo dignum noverca; vota mutentur mea: natos reversus videat incolumes ...
— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler

... furore began to subside. By degrees the latest boats arrived, and in about three hours from the time of commencing, the crew of the steamer began to batten down the hatches. Just then, like the "late passenger," the late trawler came up. The captain ...
— The Young Trawler • R.M. Ballantyne

... enterprise at too low a rate or from lack of financial backing. The Government, as in the recent cases of the Pinnaroo Railway and the Outer Harbour, had to complete the halfdone work as the direct employer of labour and the direct purchaser of materials. A great furore for goldmining in the Northern Territory arose, and people in England bought city allotments in Palmerston, which was expected to become the queen city of North Australia, Port Darwin is no whit behind Sydney Harbour in beauty and capacity. The navies of ...
— An Autobiography • Catherine Helen Spence



Words linked to "Furore" :   disturbance, brouhaha, fashion



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