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enfierced

enfierced adjective: made fierce.

Adjective

enfierced (comparative more enfierced, superlative most enfierced)

  1. (obsolete) Made fierce.
    • His rude assault and rugged handeling
      Straunge seemed to the knight, that aye with foe
      In fayre defence and goodly menaging
      Of armes was wont to fight, yet nathemoe
      Was he abashed now not fighting so,
      But more enfierced through his currish play1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of enfierced

comparativemore enfierced
superlativemost enfierced

Origin of enfierced

From en- + fierce + -ed.

Questions about enfierced

What does enfierced mean?
Enfierced means made fierce.
What part of speech is enfierced?
Enfierced is an adjective.

Words near enfierced in the dictionary

  1. enfevering
  2. enfevers
  3. enfield
  4. Enfield Lock
  5. enfields
  6. enfierced
  7. enfilade
  8. enfiladed
  9. enfilades
  10. enfilading
  11. enfile

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