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ferocity

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fe·roc·i·ty  (f-rs-t)
n.
The state or quality of being ferocious; fierceness.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ferocityferocity - the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
intensiveness, intensity - high level or degree; the property of being intense
savageness, savagery - the property of being untamed and ferocious; "the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums"

ferocity
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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 [fəˈrɒsɪti] nférocité 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
ferocity [fəˈrɒsɪtɪ] nferocia
ferocity [fəˈrɒsɪtɪ] nferocia


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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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