ferocityn.
/fᵻˈrɒsᵻti/, U.S. /fəˈrɑsədi/ The quality or state of being ferocious; habitual fierceness or savageness; an instance of the same.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [noun]
rethenesseOE
grimcundleȝcc1175
fellhead1340
ferteec1380
fiercenessc1384
savagenessa1400
grimliness14..
fellnessc1410
bestialitya1413
fierceheadc1440
cruelness?a1475
inhumanity1477
bremeness?1529
fury1534
tigerness1535
bruteness1538
immanity1539
wolvishness?1548
ferity?c1550
brutishness1567
truculency1569
Phalarism1581
ferocity1606
savagerya1616
brutality1633
inhumanness1649
wolfishness1676
boarishness1682
brutism1687
truculence1727
ferociousness1766
bestialism1824
tigerhood1846
Calibanism1859
unhumanness1885
inhumanism1907
Hunnishness1914
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [noun]
grimcundleȝcc1175
fellhead1340
ferteec1380
fiercetya1382
fiercenessc1384
grimliness14..
fellnessc1410
fierceheadc1440
grillc1450
cruelness?a1475
tigerness1535
wolvishness?1548
ferity?c1550
truculency1569
cursedness1589
ferocity1606
wolfishness1676
boarishness1682
brutishness1683
truculence1727
ferociousness1766
tiger1825
tigerhood1846
Hunnishness1914
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxxvi. 355 With such perseuerant hatred and ferocitie.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. iv. 102 Grimalkin..degenerates not in Ferosity from the elder Branches of her House. View more context for this quotation
1792 E. Burke Heads for Consideration in Three Memorials on French Affairs (1797) 142 Such their ferocity..that no engagement would hold with them for three months.
1831 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 147 These ferocities, and Sibylline frenzies.
1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 122 It [sc. fear] is always joined with ferocity.
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