What's the difference between fury and wrath?

Fury


Definition:

  • (n.) A thief.
  • (n.) Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
  • (n.) Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
  • (n.) pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
  • (n.) One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
  • (n.) A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
  • (2) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
  • (3) With Fury, I’m not going to have no remorse, I’m not going to have no sympathy.
  • (4) My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us.
  • (5) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
  • (6) China greeted the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s win with fury: a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, attacked the event as a “political farce”.
  • (7) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
  • (8) Jeremy Hunt has been forced into a partial climbdown in his dispute with NHS junior doctors in an attempt to stop their fury at a threatened punitive new contract spilling over into strike action.
  • (9) But, as the latest Atlantic fury advances on these islands, it looks too little too late.
  • (10) That cannot be right.” Fury, who was stripped of his IBF title on Tuesday night after signing up for a rematch with Klitschko, tweeted last week: “Hopefully I don’t win @BBCSPOTY as I’m not the best roll model [sic] in the world for the kids, give it to someone who would appreciate it”, but the BBC has no plans to remove him from the shortlist or make any special arrangements to avoid potential controversy in Belfast on 20 December.
  • (11) Like a ghost from the past, Haye, who pulled out of two fights with Fury, eased himself back into the limelight before his own comeback and told the Evening Standard that the new champion would lose respect if he did not give him a title shot one day.
  • (12) It’s a cheap shot, but for Latham, politics has always been about his western Sydney roots and his fury with leftists “enjoying the luxury of high incomes and cosmopolitan interests” while dismissing suburban Australians as sexist, racist and homophobic.
  • (13) Tyson Fury: what next for Britain's new heavyweight boxing champion?
  • (14) The power of Murdoch himself can best be seen by the speed and fury of Tory MPs ready to criticise the Google tax deal even after George Osborne described it as a “major success”.
  • (15) If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned.” “We have never been an ordinary political party,” Salmond told his audience.
  • (16) But what I will say is that if you are young and you are experiencing feelings of fury and heartbreak about the result, you are justified in doing so.
  • (17) I recently discovered that I'm in The Filth and the Fury DVD eating cake and talking to Sid - my brother bought it me for Christmas.
  • (18) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
  • (19) The IBF has stripped Tyson Fury of his world heavyweight title on account of his failure to defend the belt against the mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov, instead choosing a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko , whom the Briton beat on 28 November.
  • (20) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.

Wrath


Definition:

  • (a.) Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.
  • (a.) The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.
  • (a.) See Wroth.
  • (v. t.) To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our members have had to bear the brunt of the passengers’ wrath, because the senior executives and staff went running for cover,” he said.
  • (2) "I take complete responsibility and offer nothing but love and contrition and I hope that now Jonathan and the BBC will endure less forensic wrath.
  • (3) Revolutionary forces also distributed leaflets at checkpoints leading into the city that read, "Dear Muslims, avoid God's wrath.
  • (4) We believe that there is a connection between those who traffic the children to Italy and those who employ them at the markets, so we are planning an investigation to establish these links.” The fear of their families facing the wrath of the traffickers is driving some to find quicker ways of repaying their debt.
  • (5) That means transcending their own need for status and recognition, facing the wrath of those seeking to maintain the status quo and doing what they know in their hearts to be right.
  • (6) Addressing the crowd, communist party leader Aleka Papariga warned that whatever government emerged in the coming days would face the wrath of the people if it dared to pass more belt-tightening measures.
  • (7) This would blow their chance to dismantle the signature policy achievement of the Obama presidency, leaving them facing the wrath of constituents and potential trouble at the ballot box.
  • (8) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
  • (9) Adding to controversy, an MP caused an uproar after by telling parliament alcohol and revealing uniforms should be banned from all Malaysian flights to avoid "Allah's wrath".
  • (10) It’s a part of the American epic immortalised in John Steinbeck’s bitter novel, The Grapes of Wrath .
  • (11) Nick Clegg's MPs are already nervous about the wrath of voters and party members who will protest that they didn't support the Lib Dems for this.
  • (12) A leading Greek bishop has warned lawmakers that they risk incurring the wrath of God – and will be excommunicated – if they vote in favour of legalising same-sex partnerships.
  • (13) On the way back, in his speech to the Commons, he had to appease the wrath of Nick Clegg and show his government's credentials to Europe.
  • (14) 10.50am GMT Pro-Moris rally Morsi has incurred the wrath of many lawyers - some of whom are striking - by issuing the decree granting him widespread powers and simultaneously curbing those of the judiciary.
  • (15) cricketed Gatsby is one of the great books of the 20th century but you can't give just one novel the distinction of " Great American novel " because at different points in time that could be applied to many different books, including To Kill A Mockingbird , Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath ; Gatsby isn't even Fitzgerald's best work: go read This Side of Paradise and Tender is the Night.
  • (16) This could go back to being desert, the way it was before irrigation.” Many farmers are descendants of migrants who fled here to escape the 1930s dust bowl, a trauma immortalised in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath.
  • (17) He directed the paper through choppy waters in its relationship with the Bush administration, earning the then president's wrath with a steady stream of scoops on the US government's use of phone tapping and torture.
  • (18) In normal circumstances, this would incur the wrath of those papers.
  • (19) David Cameron will risk the wrath of the drinks industry and free marketeers today by announcing his government is to introduce legislation setting a minimum alcohol price of 40p a unit in England – enough to add £135 to the annual bill of a heavy drinker.
  • (20) "No one should die in sin … This must be taken into consideration: we cannot stop Allah's wrath."