"Ferity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... co-ordinated, is merely to say that he wrote when he wrote; but he by no means sins beyond his fellows. In regard to Latinisms his case is not so good. He constantly uses such words as "clarity" for "clearness," "ferity" for "fierceness" or "wildness," when nothing is gained by the exotic form. Dr. Greenhill's useful glossary to the Religio and the Morals exhibits in tabular form not merely such terms as "abbreviatures," "aequilibriously," "bivious," "convincible," ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury |
