fury
noun
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name
Etymology: Friom Middle English Furie, from Latin Furiae, a name used for the three Erinyes, being the plural of furia ("rage").
- A female personification of vengeance.
““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,[…]!””
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr Proto-Italic *fōr Latin furbor. English fury Borrowed from Latin fur (“thief”).
- A thief.
“But have an eye to your plate , for there be Furies.”