fierceness

[ UK /fˈi‍əsnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the property of being wild or turbulent
    the storm's violence
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How To Use fierceness In A Sentence

  • On board the Arangi, relieved by the lowering of her mainsail, as the fierceness went out of the wind and the cloudburst of tropic rain began to fall, Van Horn and Borckman lurched toward each other in the blackness. CHAPTER VI
  • It is not fierceness and violence can cure their fierceness, but meekness and condescendency to follow their humours and soft dealing with them. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • It is, indeed, the idea of fierceness, and not of bravery, which destroys the female character; for who can read the story of the justly celebrated The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • The reasons which induced him to alter his mind were, in the first place, the piety, methodistic most of it, which was then mixed up with politics; and secondly, a growing fierceness of temper, which made the cause of the people a religion. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane
  • 6 The fearless spirit of Leo, his authority and eloquence, again mitigated the fierceness of a The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Listen to advice," Luz said fiercely in that sound, Norit leaning above him with unwonted fierceness. HAMMERFALL
  • Nor is even the first heroine of the name destitute of a certain strange beauty in her fierceness, or of honesty in the midst of perverted passion and passionate perversity. Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells
  • Fell with his face to the sky, and a fiendlike fierceness upon it. Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School
  • The pregnant woman needed to breathe deeply when her heart was beating with such fierceness.
  • The matter thrown out was a stream of metal and minerals, rendered liquid by the fierceness of the fire, which boiled up at the mouth like water at the head of a great river; and having run a little way, the extremity thereof began to crust and cruddle, turning into large porous stones, resembling cakes of burning sea-coal. A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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