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Megaera
[ muh-jeer-uh ]
noun
, Classical Mythology.
- one of the Furies.
Megaera
/ mɪˈdʒɪərə /
noun
- Greek myth one of the three Furies; the others are Alecto and Tisiphone
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Example Sentences
In future I shall call all she-asses that, but the old Megaera named this one Jason.
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What is nobler than a mother's love, but when she fights for her child she becomes a raving Megaera.
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Their names (see l. 24) were Megaera, Alecto, and Tisiphone.
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Let Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone shriek and wail ever so loudly, they shall not break it.
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Up till that time she passed simply as Megaera, as an “arch witch,” as Goethe calls her.
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