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Definition of Fury
Fury

A thief.

Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.

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

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

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

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

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Fury Quotations

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

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

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell

Fury itself supplies arms.
Virgil

Abused patience turns to fury.
Thomas Fuller

Fury Translations

fury in French is furie
fury in German is Furie
fury in Latin is rabies
fury in Norwegian is raseri, furie


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