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  • 51Opera seria — A caricature of a performance of Handel s Flavio, featuring three of the best known opera seria singers of their day: Senesino on the left, diva Francesca Cuzzoni in the centre, and art loving castrato Gaetano Berenstadt on the right. Opera seria …

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  • 52furious — furiously, adv. furiousness, n. /fyoor ee euhs/, adj. 1. full of fury, violent passion, or rage; extremely angry; enraged: He was furious about the accident. 2. intensely violent, as wind or storms. 3. of unrestrained energy, speed, etc.: furious …

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  • 53fierce — 1 Fierce, truculent, ferocious, barbarous, savage, inhuman, cruel, fell are comparable when they mean displaying fury or malignity in looks or in actions. Fierce is applied to men or to animals that inspire terror because of their menacing aspect …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 54furious — fu•ri•ous [[t]ˈfyʊər i əs[/t]] adj. 1) full of fury, violent passion, or rage: a furious letter of accusation[/ex] 2) intensely violent, as wind or storms 3) of unrestrained energy, speed, etc.: furious activity[/ex] • Etymology: 1300–50; ME < …

    From formal English to slang

  • 55furious — /ˈfjuriəs / (say fyoohreeuhs) adjective 1. full of fury, violent passion, or rage. 2. intensely violent, as wind, storms, etc. 3. of unrestrained energy, speed, etc.: furious activity. {Middle English, from Latin furiōsus raging} –furiously,… …

  • 56fury — /ˈfjuri / (say fyoohree) noun (plural furies) 1. frenzied or unrestrained violent passion, especially anger. 2. violence; vehemence; fierceness. 3. a fierce and violent person, especially a woman. –phrase 4. like fury, Colloquial furiously;… …

  • 57Portrait of a Marriage — is the 1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville West completed by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals and letters. This is a book of strong emotions relating to Sackville West s complicated marriage to writer and politician… …

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  • 58Absalom — • Article covers Absalom, son of David; Absalom, father of Mathathias; and Absalom, father of Jonathan Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Absalom     Absalom      …

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  • 59fury — late 14c., fierce passion, from O.Fr. furie (14c.), from L. furia violent passion, rage, madness, related to furere to rage, be mad. Romans used Furiæ to translate Gk. Erinyes, the collective name for the avenging deities sent from Tartarus to… …

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  • 60deliberately — Carefully, designedly, unhurriedly. As used in defining murder, the word means in a cool state of the blood. It does not mean brooded over, considered, reflected upon for a week, a day, or an hour, but it means an intent to kill, executed by a… …

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