Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ferocity"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ferocity \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ferocity
n : the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
violence" [syn: {fierceness}, {furiousness}, {fury}, {vehemence},
{violence}, {wildness}]
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