[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being furious; madness, fury.
c. 1500. Melusine, xlvi. 321. Makyng … by her furyousnes suche horryble crye & noyse that it semed al thayer to be replete with thundre & tempeste.
1535. Coverdale, Ps. lxxvii[i]. 49. He sent vpon them ye furiousnesse of his wrath.
1628. Wither, Brit. Rememb., III. 1125. Unlesse God had, hi mercy, curb’d their furiousnesse.
1746–7. Hervey, Medit. (1818), 171. He, instead of discharging the furiousness of his wrath upon this guilty head, poured out his prayers, poured out his sighs, poured out his very soul, for me and my fellow-transgressors.
1840. in Smart; and in later Dicts.
