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FEROCITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being wild or turbulent
Example:
the storm's violence
Synonyms:
ferocity; fierceness; furiousness; fury; vehemence; violence; wildness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("ferocity" is a kind of...):
intensity; intensiveness (high level or degree; the property of being intense)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ferocity"):
savageness; savagery (the property of being untamed and ferocious)
Derivation:
ferocious (marked by extreme and violent energy)
Context examples:
There could be but one result, and that was that his ferocity fed upon itself and increased.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Even so, it was a hard fight, and it aroused the last latent remnants of Buck’s ferocity.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
“Hold your tongue!” Poole said to her, with a ferocity of accent that testified to his own jangled nerves; and indeed, when the girl had so suddenly raised the note of her lamentation, they had all started and turned towards the inner door with faces of dreadful expectation.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
You licked Cheese-Face because you wouldn't give in, and you wouldn't give in partly because you were an abysmal brute and for the rest because you believed what every one about you believed, that the measure of manhood was the carnivorous ferocity displayed in injuring and marring fellow-creatures' anatomies.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And so terribly did he live this vendetta that Grey Beaver, fierce savage himself, could not but marvel at White Fang's ferocity.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He did not know that he growled, but he growled aloud with a terrible ferocity.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Every word, every cautious action, on the part of the men, impressed upon him his own terrible ferocity.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Her quickness matched his; her ferocity equalled his; while he fought with his fangs alone, and she fought with her sharp- clawed feet as well.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
So White Fang could only eat his heart in bitterness and develop a hatred and malice commensurate with the ferocity and indomitability of his nature.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He knew the law even better than did the dogs that had known no other life, and he observed the law more punctiliously; but still there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
