Furies Definition

fyyo͝orēz
noun
The three terrible female spirits with snaky hair (Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera) who punish the doers of unavenged crimes.
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Plural form of fury.

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Antonyms:
  • peaces
  • happinesses
  • calms
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pronoun

(Greek mythology) The goddesses of vengeance; they were also known to accompany Nemesis. Their Roman counterparts were the Dirae.

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Origin of Furies

  • From Ancient Greek Ἐρῑνύες (Erīnues, literally “Avengers”), Erinyes.

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Furies Sentence Examples

  • And now I'm in flight--pursued by furies of my own invoking--threatened with love in its most hideous form-- matrimony!

  • From the blood of Uranus (this feature is common in Red Indian and Egyptian myths) were born furies, giants, ash-nymphs and Aphrodite.

  • Then he bursts into one of his wild furies and rages at everyone and everything, seizes the letters, opens them, and reads those from the Emperor addressed to others.

  • Specimens of Fowler's verses were published in 1803 by John Leyden in his Scottish Descriptive Poems. Fowler contributed a prefatory sonnet to James VI.'s Furies; and James, in return, commended, in verse, Fowler's Triumphs.

  • Orestes was persued by the Furies for committing matricide, they drove him mad and he chased him from land to land.

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