Definitionn. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
Last update: August 30, 2016
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At the beginning of September, Michelin caused a furor by announcing 7,500 redundancies. [noun]
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Lew flitted from one plantation to another, in the dead of night, preaching a crusade to Mexico, and, like Peter the Hermit, creating a furor of excitement wherever he appeared. [noun]
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A more definite allusion to the legend may be found (c. 850) in Wandelbert of Priim's metrical martyrology (21st October): "Tunc numerosa simul Rheni per littora fulgent Christo virgines erecta tropaea maniplis Agrippinae urbi, quarum furor impius olim Millia mactavit ductricibus inclyta sanctis." [noun]
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But furor teutonicus transplanted is the least controllable, least dignified, least admirable that there is. [noun]
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"Furor Domini" Unfortunately for Vasco Nuñez, Arbolancha arrived just two months after Pedrarias had sailed. [noun]
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Lord, what a rage you've become and what a furor you've aroused. [noun]
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The names of the torpedo-boat destroyers were the Furor and the Pluton. [noun]
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The aria was received with furor; thrice he was obliged to repeat it. [noun]
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This condition of affairs rapidly improved; but such was the furor for slaughter, and the ignorance of all concerned, that every hide sent to market in 1871 represented no less than _five_ dead buffalo. [noun]
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