Wrath vs. Fury — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Wrath and Fury
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Wrath
Extreme anger
He hid his pipe for fear of incurring his father's wrath
Fury
Violent anger; rage.
Wrath
Forceful, often vindictive anger.
Fury
A fit of anger
"I went into a fury and shouted in his face" (William Least Heat-Moon).
Wrath
Punishment or vengeance as a manifestation of anger.
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Fury
Violent or frenzied action
The storm's fury.
Wrath
Wrathful.
Fury
A violent disturbance or intense period of activity
"The Huns ... moved into Italy, unleashing a fury of destruction" (Arther Ferrill).
Wrath
Great anger.
Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.
Fury
Fury Greek & Roman Mythology Any of the spirits who pursue and torment the doers of unavenged crimes, identified with the Greek Erinyes.
Wrath
(rare) Punishment.
Fury
Extreme anger.
Wrath
Wrathful; wroth; very angry.
Fury
Strength or violence in action.
Wrath
(obsolete) To anger; to enrage.
Fury
An angry or malignant person.
Wrath
Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.
Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed.
When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased.
Now smoking and frothingIts tumult and wrath in.
Fury
(obsolete) A thief.
Wrath
The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.
Fury
A thief.
Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.
Wrath
See Wroth.
Fury
Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.
Wrath
To anger; to enrage; - also used impersonally.
If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun.
Fury
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; - sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
I do oppose my patience to his fury.
Wrath
Intense anger (usually on an epic scale)
Fury
Pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him.
Wrath
Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Fury
One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,And slits the thin-spun life.
Fury
A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
Fury
A feeling of intense anger;
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
His face turned red with rage
Fury
State of violent mental agitation
Fury
The property of being wild or turbulent;
The storm's violence
Fury
(classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
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