Meaning Of The Word Furies
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Furies Meaning
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Furies in American English
minor female divinities: the daughters of Gaea who punished crimes at the instigation of the victims: known to the Greeks as the Erinyes or Eumenides and to the Romans as the Furiae or Dirae. Originally there were an indefinite number, but were later rest the three terrible female spirits with snaky hair (Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera) who punish the doers of unavenged crimes Furies in British English plural noun: the snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, usually three in number, who pursued unpunished criminals |
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