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Fieriness

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fier·y  (fr, f-r)
adj. fier·i·er, fier·i·est
1.
a. Consisting of or containing fire.
b. Burning or glowing.
c. Using or effected with fire.
d. Easily ignited; flammable.
2. Having the color of fire; brightly red: fiery hair; a fiery sunset.
3.
a. Torridly hot.
b. Feverishly hot and flushed: fiery cheeks.
c. Being in an inflamed, usually painful condition: a fiery boil.
4.
a. Easily excited or emotionally volatile; tempestuous: a fiery temper.
b. Charged with emotion; spirited: a fiery denunciation.
[Middle English firi, from fir, fire; see fire.]
fieri·ly adv.
fieri·ness n.
fiery adv.
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Noun1.Fierinessfieriness - the heat or the color of fire
red heat
high temperature, hotness, heat - the presence of heat
2.fieriness - a passionate and quick-tempered nature
passion, warmth, heat - the trait of being intensely emotional
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But that's what I've said to myself,--I've said you'd had some nat'ral feeling; and as for my husband, as hasn't been himself for this two months, I'm not a-defending him, in no way, for being so hot about th' erigation,--not but what there's worse men, for he never wronged nobody of a shilling nor a penny, not willingly; and as for his fieriness and lawing, what could I do?
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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