fierceness

English

Etymology

fierce +‎ -ness

Noun

fierceness (usually uncountable, plural fiercenesses)

1. The state of being fierce.
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     I stroked it gently, on which the mutinous rogue seemed to swell, and gather a new degree of fierceness and insolence; so that finding it grew not to be trifled with any longer, I prepar'd for rubbers in good earnest.

Translations

state of being fierce

• French: acharnement (fr) m
• Irish: boirbe f
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• Latin: immānitās
• Maori: taratutū