ferine

[ feer-ahyn, -in ]

adjective

1. feral ¹.

ferine

/ ˈfɪəraɪn /

adjective

1. another word for feral 1 feral 1

Word History and Origins

Origin of ferine¹

1530–40; < Latin ferīnus, equivalent to fer ( a ) a wild animal (noun use of feminine of ferus wild) + -īnus -ine ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of ferine¹

C17: from Latin ferīnus , of wild animals, from fera wild beast

Example Sentences

The only ferine companions we now had were a few hardy quadrupeds and birds, capable of enduring the winter.

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He crouched like a beast, ferine—all the obscure and diabolic passion of him ready to spring.

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In that moment, she was a throw-back of a million years, and through her veins fumed the ferine blood of her paleolithic forebears.

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The sort of ferine reputation which he had acquired for himself abroad prevented numbers, of course, of his countrymen, whom he would have most cordially welcomed, from seeking his acquaintance.

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Who, within his inner consciousness, does not feel that same ferine, savage man struggling against the stern, adamantine bonds of morality and decorum?

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