ferocity
noun
a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
ferocities
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pluralof ferocity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Pieces by Ravel and Pablo de Sarasate shone as they should, and the evening’s unlikely centerpiece, Ginastera’s Violin Concerto, was a 30-minute fever dream of serialist fancies and ferocities.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
Whitman relished these energies; these ferocities in our beings.
From Slate ● Jan. 9, 2015
The altar boy who might charm the nuns could take on ferocities.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a small mews cottage in London's arty Chelsea, Osborne lives with his wife, Actress Ure, and spews out his ferocities.
From Time Magazine Archive
I never had more intentions—what do I say?—more ferocities; I am sitting in my boat and my oars rhythmically creak.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
