fury

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English furie, from Old French furie, from Latin furia (rage).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfjʊə.ɹi/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈfjʊɚ.i/, /ˈfjʊɹ.i/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊəɹi

Noun[edit]

fury (countable and uncountable, plural furies)

  1. Extreme anger.
    • 1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. [], London: [] Jacob Tonson, [], →OCLC, Act III, page 39:
      Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.
    • 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 155:
      The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury.
  2. Strength or violence in action.
    • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto)‎[1], London: [] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, [], →OCLC:
      Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide, / And with the winde in greater furie fret: / The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, [] the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, []!
  3. An angry or malignant person.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Latin fur (thief).

Noun[edit]

fury (plural furies)

  1. (obsolete) A thief.

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

fury

  1. Alternative form of furie

Etymology 2[edit]

Adjective[edit]

fury

  1. Alternative form of fyry

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfu.rɨ/
  • Rhymes: -urɨ
  • Syllabification: fu‧ry

Noun[edit]

fury f

  1. inflection of fura:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural