FEROCITY

ferocity. Ferocity, n. savageness, cruelty, fierceness, fury

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Fe‐roc″i‐ty (?), n. [[L. ferocitas, fr. ferox, -ocis, fierce, kin to ferus wild: cf. F. ferocité. See Fierce.]] Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.