fury

[Fu·ry]

(classical mythology) the hideous snake haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

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A thief.

Noun
the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm''s violence"

Noun
a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"

Noun
(classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

Noun
state of violent mental agitation

n.
A thief.

n.
Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.

n.
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.

n.
pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.

n.
One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.

n.
A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

Fury

Fu"ry , n. [L. fur.] A thief. [Obs.]

Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.

Fury

Fu"ry, n.; 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.

3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Meg'91ra; 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.

4. One of the Parc'91, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.]

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant. Syn. -- Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage; vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness; frenzy. See Anger.

A thief.

Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.

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Usage Examples

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Abused patience turns to fury.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.