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fieriness|ˈfaɪərɪnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being fiery.
†1. The attribute of containing the element fire; igneous nature. Obs.
1680H. Moore Apocal. Apoc. 74 As if a burning Mountain had been cast into the Sea, the earthiness and fieriness thereof being so contrary..to Water.
2. The condition of being hot as fire, or of glowing like fire.
1611Cotgr., Ignition..firinesse; the being red-hot. 1698J. Fryer E. India & Persia 104 Water is sprinkled, to mitigate the Fieriness of the Sun.
†b. Inflammation; fieriness of the face = erysipelas. Obs.
1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 206 It quencheth the firinesse of the face. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. ii. xxiii. 139 All the fieriness and burning is gone [from a wound].
c. Of a liquid or viand: see fiery 4 c.
1698J. Fryer E. India & Persia 157 Their Relishing Bits have not the Fieriness of ours. 1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 393 Flavour, mellowness and a due strength without fieriness, comprised all that need be desired to produce a British Brandy.
3. Ardour of temper; tendency to ‘fire up’.
1625–8Camden's Hist. Eliz. iv. (1688) 568 The Fieriness and Heat of his Youth. 1704Addison Italy (1733) 37 Natural Fieriness of Temper. 1842Dickens Lett. (ed. 2) I. 76 Katey (from a lurking propensity to fiery-ness) [is named] Lucifer Box. |