Ferocity

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:38:16

Fe*roc"i*ty (?), n. [L. ferocitas, fr. ferox, -ocis, fierce, kin to ferus wild: cf. F. ferocit'e. See Fierce.]

Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance.

The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.

 

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