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ferocity noun savagery, violence, cruelty, brutality, ruthlessness, inhumanity, wildness, barbarity, viciousness, fierceness, rapacity, bloodthirstiness, savageness, ferociousness surprised by the ferocity of the attack Translations ferocity [fəˈrɒsɪtɪ] N 1. (= savagery) [of person, animal, attack, battle] → ferocidad f 2. (= intensity) [of storm, wind, fire] → furia f; [of feelings] → intensidad f; [of criticism] → dureza f ferocity n (of animal) → Wildheit f; (of dog) → Bissigkeit f; (of appearance, look, glare) → Grimmigkeit f; (of battle, war, debate, argument, competition, criticism) → Heftigkeit f; (of attack) → Brutalität f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He would have heard of channels and sandbanks, of natural features of the land useful for sea-marks, of villages and tribes and modes of barter and precautions to take: with the instructive tales about native chiefs dyed more or less blue, whose character for greediness, ferocity, or amiability must have been expounded to him with that capacity for vivid language which seems joined naturally to the shadiness of moral character and recklessness of disposition. There were days when all the air was vexed with roars and squalls of ferocity and agony from the arena, until the last animal in the cages was excited and ill at ease. Nevertheless, his ferocity and cruelties were so great and so unheard of that, after endless single murders, he killed a large number of the people of Rome and all those of Alexandria. |
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