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fiercenesses

fiercenesses is the plural of fierceness.

Meaning of fierceness

Noun

fierceness (usually uncountable, plural fiercenesses)

  1. (usually) The state of being fierce.
    • I stroked it gently, on which the mutinous rogue seemed to swell, and gather a new degree of fierceness and insolence; so that finding it grew not to be trifled with any longer, I prepar'd for rubbers in good earnest.1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    fiercity

Questions about fiercenesses

What is fiercenesses the plural of?
Fiercenesses is the plural of fierceness.

Words near fiercenesses in the dictionary

  1. fiercely
  2. fiercen
  3. fiercen up
  4. fiercened
  5. fierceness
  6. fiercenesses
  7. fiercening
  8. fiercens
  9. fiercer
  10. fiercesome
  11. fiercest

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