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fiercity

noun

Etymology

From fierce + -ity.

  1. derived from ferus
  2. derived from fers
  3. inherited from fers
  4. suffixed as fiercity — “fierce + ity”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being fierce.

    • The strokes of steel rang out between the crashing thunderbolts, and the blade-struck sparks rivalled in fiercity the lightning’s livid glare.
    • The fiercity of the fighting may be judged from the fact that the railroad station changed hands twice in the twenty minutes preceding the filing of this dispatch.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA