Middle English Dictionary Entry
fūrǒur n.
Entry Info
| Forms | fūrǒur n. |
| Etymology | OF fureur (from L fūrōr-em). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Wrath, fury.
Associated quotations
- (a1475) Fortescue Dial.UF (Vit E.10)483 : The dyvyne furour turned uppon his son Roboam, and toke away the tenth part of his lordeship.
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton:EETS)143/55 (f.80vb) : Holofernes, prynce of the knyghthode of thassyryens .. was brenned in ouermoche furour [L (Vulg.Judith 5.2): furore], in grete ire.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)117/24 : Some qualitees that ben appropred to man principally ben attribute to God by transsumpcion, amonge which I take ire and furour … He that is all perfecte … is neythir, to speke propirly, yrouse nor furiouse.