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the quiet decision that violence is no longer a last resort but a love language
means The quality of being fierce, savage, or intensely violent — whether in a beast's attack or a person's unrestrained rage.
from From Latin ferocitas, 'fierceness,' built on ferox, 'fierce, wild, untamed,' which itself traces back to ferus, 'wild beast' — the same root that gives us 'feral.' Embedded in ferox is an old image of an animal whose eyes burn: it's distantly tied to the root for 'eye/face' seen in words for a wild, staring look. English took it through French ('férocité') around the 17th century.
- root meaning
- From Latin ferox, meaning wild-eyed and untamed
- smallest predator
- Shrews must eat every few hours or starve
- honey badger
- Survives cobra venom, then naps it off
- mother instinct
- Hippos kill more humans than lions yearly
- chemical fuel
- Adrenaline can mask fatal wounds for minutes
tyson vs holyfield — mike tyson bit off evander holyfield's ear in 1997, one of sports' most vicious moments
ricko dewilde — mountain man from 'mountain monkeys' who killed a bear with his bare hands in alaska
rachel dolezal controversy — white woman's ferocious advocacy as black activist until exposed in 2015, polarizing racial ferocity