ferine
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ferine
1530–40; < Latin ferīnus, equivalent to fer ( a ) a wild animal (noun use of feminine of ferus wild) + -īnus -ine 1
Example Sentences
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The only ferine companions we now had were a few hardy quadrupeds and birds, capable of enduring the winter.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
The Here, the Now, the vast Forlorn around us; The gold-delirium, the ferine strife; The lusts that lure us on, the hates that hound us; Our red rags in the patch-work quilt of Life.
From Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
Who, within his inner consciousness, does not feel that same ferine, savage man struggling against the stern, adamantine bonds of morality and decorum?
From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main by Howard Pyle
In that moment, she was a throw-back of a million years, and through her veins fumed the ferine blood of her paleolithic forebears.
From The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
There was a silence of some seconds, and his yellow ferine gaze met hers strangely.
From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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