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Ερινύες — meaning in English

Erinyes

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English meaning

  • fury noun Extreme or wild anger.

Senses

Ερινύες is used for these senses in English:

  • Erinyes (Greek god) The Furies; the goddesses of vengeance against serious moral offence (such as oath-breaking), latterly known as protectors of Athens, of pre-Olympian origin and variously described as having sprung from the spilled blood of Uranus or as daughters of Nyx; identified with the Roman Dirae.
  • Fury (Greek mythology) A female personification of vengeance.

fury — full definition

  1. noun Extreme or wild anger.
  2. noun Violent force or intensity, especially of weather or nature.

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