Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being furious; violent agitation; impetuous motion; madness; frenzy; rage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being furious.
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- noun The state or quality of being
furious oroutraged ;enragement ;inflamedness .
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- noun the property of being wild or turbulent
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Let it jolly well go," said Dicky in furiousness.
New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925
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One positive thing did come out of my episodic furiousness and that was that I found out I was a polyglot.
Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2008
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Were we not, we would not be destroying the world of our great grandchildren with the mad furiousness with which we are knowingly destroying it.
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The absolute furiousness of the tempo is typical of The Fall's later exercises in deliriousness.
FallNet - was expecting a free tea kettle from Granada TV. It did not materialise. 1999
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For they may rightly be termed coffers to cast oates into, a devouring gulfe of meate, and wherein there is no other pleasure to be taken, but onely in their crie and furiousness when they are come to be great ones: or continuall cheaping whiles they be little….
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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For they may rightly be termed coffers to cast oates into, a devouring gulfe of meate, and wherein there is no other pleasure to be taken, but onely in their crie and furiousness when they are come to be great ones: or continuall cheaping whiles they be little….
Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983
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I was about to give a flat refusal to the dervish, when I observed that his countenance, which hitherto had been all smiles and good humour, had changed to downright furiousness; and fearing that he would take by force that which I could not protect, I, with all the reluctance imaginable, consented to the execution of his project.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
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"Let it jolly well go," said Dicky in furiousness.
New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune 1891
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He will keep me secretly in His tabernacle from the strife of tongues, and will turn the furiousness of my enemies to His glory; and as my day my strength will be.
Twenty-Five Village Sermons Charles Kingsley 1847
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My dear reader, consider what great distress we must have been in at this time, when the ship was tossed and rolled about in such a dreadful manner and expecting every moment that the ship would be staved in pieces, by the furiousness of the raging sea.
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