fury
a feeling of intense anger
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,420 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,095 times across 173,849 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a feeling of intense anger also: rage, madness hell hath no fury like a woman scornedhis face turned red with rage
- state of violent mental agitation also: craze, delirium, frenzy, hysteria
- the property of being wild or turbulent also: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, vehemence, violence, wildness the storm's violence
- (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals also: Eumenides, Erinyes
fury in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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What fury raised thee up? away, away.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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His voice was too cold for the fury of his words.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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No words can paint the fury of her captor at her disappearance.
The Yellow Fairy Book: The Grateful Beasts · World Traditions (Celtic, Norse, Asian & Persian) · Chapter 1
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Never, never Brave me, nor my fury tempt: Downy wings, but wroth they beat Tempest even in reason’s seat.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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He had understood, that, at the first word, his father’s fury would have turned against him; and then what might have happened?
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1