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Megaera

[ muh-jeer-uh ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.
  1. one of the Furies.


Megaera

/ mɪˈdʒɪərə /

noun

  1. 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.

What is nobler than a mother's love, but when she fights for her child she becomes a raving Megaera.

Their names (see l. 24) were Megaera, Alecto, and Tisiphone.

Let Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone shriek and wail ever so loudly, they shall not break it.

Up till that time she passed simply as Megaera, as an “arch witch,” as Goethe calls her.

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