Tisiphone

[ ti-sif-uh-nee ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. one of the Furies.

Tisiphone

/ tɪˈsɪfənɪ /

noun

1. Greek myth one of the three Furies; the others are Alecto and Megaera

Example Sentences

They were usually represented as three: Tisiphone, Megaera and Alecto.

From Literature

Here rose an iron tow’r: before the gate, By night and day, a wakeful Fury sate, The pale Tisiphone; a robe she wore, With all the pomp of horror, dy’d in gore.”

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Say, what Tisiphone, what snakes, are driving you mad?

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Being neglected by them, he makes his prayer to the Fury Tisiphone, to sow debate betwixt the brothers.

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To explain it away is impossible; and your fear is, that Alecto, Tisiphone, or Megæra, will come flying into the parlour with a bloody cleaver, dripping with the butler's brains.

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