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Erinyes

Definition: Erinyes

Erinyes

Noun

1. (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Erinyes" is a common misspelling or typo for: eeriness, ermines.

 

Synonyms: Erinyes

Synonyms: Eumenides (n), Fury (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Erinyes

Etymologies containing "Erinyes": Erinys. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: Erinyes

AuthorQuotation

Homer

The Erinyes, who exact punishment of men underground if one swears a false oath.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Erinyes

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

erinyes

38

baatezu erinyes

5

erinyes picture

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Erinyes

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-r-s-y"

-1 letter: eyries, nereis, resiny, seiner, serein, serine.

-2 letters: ernes, eyers, eyres, eyrie, reins, resin, rinse, risen, seine, serin, siree, siren, sneer, syren.

-3 letters: eery, erne, erns, eyen, eyer, eyes, eyne, eyre, ires, rees, rein, reis, rins, rise, ryes, seen, seer, sene, sere, sine, sire, snye, syne, yens, yins.

-4 letters: ens, ere, ern, ers, eye, ins.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-r-s-y"
 

+1 letter: serenity.

 

+2 letters: eyeliners, eyestrain, inversely, residency, seigneury, sincerely, syneresis, synergies.

 

+3 letters: cryogenies, dysenteric, esuriently, eyestrains, eyestrings, generosity, glycerines, insecurely, minelayers, perigynies, presidency, resignedly, resiliency, synaeresis, syncretise, syncretize, synergetic, yeomanries.

 

+4 letters: aepyornises, antipyreses, antisecrecy, conveyorise, cybernetics, cycloserine, dysenteries, erythrosine, esterifying, hypermnesia, hypermnesic, hypersaline, insincerely, interlayers, intersystem, necessarily, persistency, persnickety, presciently, pyroxenites, resiliently, resurveying, resynthesis, sedimentary, serendipity, sovereignly, sovereignty, syncretised, syncretises, syncretized, syncretizes, synthesizer, tensiometry, yesternight.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Erinyes


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 72 69 6E 79 65 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    .-.    ..    -.    -.--.    .    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01111001 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#121 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0072 0069 006E 0079 0065 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39847580917185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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