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ferocity|fəˈrɒsɪtɪ|
[ad. Fr. ferocité, ad. L. ferōcitāt-em, f. ferox ferocious.]
The quality or state of being ferocious; habitual fierceness or savageness; an instance of the same.
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. lxxxvi. (1612) 355 With such perseuerant hatred and ferocitie. 1749Fielding Tom Jones ii. iv, Grimalkin..degenerates not in ferosity from the elder branches of her house. 1793Burke Policy of Allies Wks. 1842 I. 594 Such their ferocity..that no engagement would hold with them for three months. 1831Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 213 These ferocities and Sibylline frenzies. 1851Ruskin Mod. Paint. II. iii. i. xiv. §28 It [fear] is always joined with ferocity. |