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
Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal ferocities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Robespierre identified his "Supreme Being" with nature, of whose ferocities the poor Girondins soon had tragical evidence.*
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
