ferity
Americannoun
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a wild, untamed, or uncultivated state.
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savagery; ferocity.
noun
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the state of being wild or uncultivated
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savagery; ferocity
Etymology
Origin of ferity
1525–35; < Latin feritās, equivalent to fer ( us ) wild, untamed + -itās -ity
Example Sentences
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To burn the bones of the king of Edom for lime,# seems no irrational ferity; but to drink of the ashes of dead relations,$ a passionate prodigality.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
Its wild, demoniac laughter awakens the echoes on the solitary lakes, and its ferity and hardiness are kindred to those robust spirits.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs
To burn the bones of the King of Edom for lime seems no irrational ferity: but to store the back volumes of Mr Bottomley's "John Bull" a passionate prodigality.'
From On The Art of Reading by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
There is a savor of the like ferity and sweetness in this poem.
From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by W. Sloane Kennedy
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