fury

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Extreme anger.

   “Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.”

   “The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Strength or violence in action.

   “Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide, / And with the winde in greater furie fret: / The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.”

   “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,[…]!”

3. (countable, uncountable)An angry or malignant person.
4. (obsolete)A thief.

   “But have an eye to your plate , for there be Furies.”

name

1. (Greek)A female personification of vengeance.

   ““I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,[…]!””