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ferity|ˈfɛrɪtɪ|
Also (6 feritee), 7 feritie.
[ad. L. feritāt-em, f. ferus wild; see -ity.]
1. The quality or state of being wild or savage; brutishness, wildness; hence, ferocity.
c1534tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 109 The rude raginge of the frenetick Scotts..encresed with more beastlie feritee. 1682Sprat Serm. bef. Artillery Co. 15 Is it not brutish Ferity rather than manly boldness. 1774J. Bryant Mythol. II. 363 The lion ramped: the pard sported..none of them betrayed any ferity. 1883J. Burroughs in Century Mag. XXVII. 111 Even in rugged Scotland, nature is..a good way short of the ferity of the moose.
b. Of a plant, etc.: Wildness, uncultivated condition.
1664Evelyn Sylva (1776) 648 The Suckers..forgetting the Ferity of their Nature. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. ii. vi. 55 So many Plants..are very noxious; some by their Ferity, and others by their poisonous Nature.
2. Savage or barbarous condition; † a form or instance of this.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xix. 384 Though the blindnesse of some ferities have savaged on the dead..yet had they therein no designe upon the soule. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 204 The Ferity and barbarous condition of the first Inhabitants. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. I. 415 The ancient Rudeness and Ferity of our Country. 1848Herbert in Todd's Nennius p. xcix, A population of the extremest ferity.
†3. Barbarity, barbarous or savage cruelty or inhumanity. Obs.
1614Raleigh Hist. World v. ii. §2. 584 The true nature of tyranny..is none other than Ferity. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. iii. 45 To burn the bones of the King of Edom for Lyme, seems no irrationall ferity. 1718Prideaux Connection ii. i. 19 Fearing the brutal ferity of his Son. |