Tisiphone

American

[ti-sif-uh-nee] / tɪˈsɪf əˌni /

noun

Classical Mythology.

one of the Furies.

Tisiphone British

/ tɪˈsɪfənɪ /

noun

Greek myth one of the three Furies; the others are Alecto and Megaera

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They were usually represented as three: Tisiphone, Megaera and Alecto.

From Literature

Say, what Tisiphone, what snakes, are driving you mad?

From Project Gutenberg

Being neglected by them, he makes his prayer to the Fury Tisiphone, to sow debate betwixt the brothers.

From Project Gutenberg

She spoke with the wrath of a Tisiphone whipping herself to a frenzy.

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Thus the French adapter of Statius's Thebaïs, in whose work the Christian element is otherwise not prominent, cautiously remarks that Jupiter and Tisiphone, by whom his heroes swear, are in reality only devils.

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