Definition of Fiercest

1. Adjective. (superlative of fierce) ¹

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Definition of Fiercest

1. fierce [adj] - See also: fierce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiercest

fiendishness
fiendishnesses
fiendlike
fiendly
fiends
fient
fientive
fients
fier
fierasfer
fierce
fiercely
fierceness
fiercenesses
fiercer
fiercest (current term)
fiere
fieres
fieri facias
fierier
fieriest
fierily
fieriness
fierinesses
fiery
fiery cross
fiest
fiesta
fiesta flower
fiestas

Literary usage of Fiercest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"But Arundel continued the fiercest of the king's enemies. In the parliament of February 1388 he was one of the five lords who solemnly renewed the appeal ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The decree, ev pressed in the fiercest language of malice and revenge, was communicated to the emperor and the catholic church ; and the bishops immediately ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... is a drama, which facts have made highly sensational, of the fiercest struggle against temporal and spiritual despotism that, within the same space of ..."

4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"resist the fiercest charges of cavalry had been fully shown in the Crusades, was it a slight proof of Edward's sagacity to recur to that almost forgotten ..."

5. Southern Literary Messenger (1850)
"... 'Mid the freshness of heaven's own dew ; He has bathed in the sun's fiercest splendor, He has jov'd in its beauty and flame ¡ To me, from my youth, ..."

6. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... and importunity in asking would prevail with his majesty to consent, wished themselves fairly unentangled: and I have heard many of the fiercest ..."

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