Megaera

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M0198100 (mə-jîr′ə)n. Greek Mythology One of the Furies.

Megaera

(mɪˈdʒɪərə) n (Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth one of the three Furies; the others are Alecto and Tisiphone

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n. one of the Furies.

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Megaera - one of the three Furies Erinyes, Eumenides, Fury - (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals

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see FuriesFuries
or Erinyes
, in Greek and Roman religion and mythology, three daughters of Mother Earth, conceived from the blood of Uranus, when Kronos castrated him. They were powerful divinities that personified conscience and punished crimes against kindred blood,
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Megaera

(Megara), in ancient Greek mythology, one of the Erinyes (called the Furies by the Romans). They were goddesses of vengeance who pursued the guilty one and drove him insane. In the figurative sense, an evil and shrewish woman.

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one of the three Furies, vengeful deities who punish evil-doers. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 274]See: Anger

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noun one of the three Furies

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