Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FI'ER-I-NESS
FI'ER-I-NESS, n. [See Fiery, Fire.]
- The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; the quality of a substance that excites a sensation of heat. Boyle.
- Heat of temper; irritability; as, fieriness of temper. Addison.
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