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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The demonic female spirits, often three in number, who pursue and punish the doers of unavenged crimes.
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- noun (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
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Examples
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Greek mythology had angry deities of vengeance and retribution, known as the Erinyes.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Lost journal entries are addressed to … the Erinyes?
2 BOOKS by REBECCA LOUDON EILEEN 2009
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Then there are the Erinyes if you want to be really really hard-core.
International Anne Johnson Day Anne Johnson 2008
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The Erinyes demand their victim; he pleads the orders of Apollo; the votes of the judges are equally divided, and Athena gives her casting vote for acquittal.
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The Erinyes are propitiated by a new ritual, in which they are worshipped as Eumenides, and Orestes dedicates an altar to Athena Areia.
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The Erinyes are propitiated by a new ritual, in which they are worshipped as Eumenides, and Orestes dedicates an altar to Athena Areia.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The Remorse of Orestes (1862) | ultraorange.net 2008
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Orestes goes mad after the deed and is pursued by the Erinyes, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety.
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The Erinyes demand their victim; he pleads the orders of Apollo; the votes of the judges are equally divided, and Athena gives her casting vote for acquittal.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The Remorse of Orestes (1862) | ultraorange.net 2008
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Orestes goes mad after the deed and is pursued by the Erinyes, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The Remorse of Orestes (1862) | ultraorange.net 2008
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On a fifth day, they say, the Erinyes assisted at the birth of Horcus (Oath) whom Eris (Strife) bare to trouble the forsworn.
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