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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There is a savor of the like ferity and sweetness in this poem.
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Thus writes Edmund Spenser, the author of the "Fa�rie Queen," a man not famous for his ferity.
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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.'
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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.
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Its wild, demoniac laughter awakens the echoes on the solitary lakes, and its ferity and hardiness are kindred to those robust spirits.
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