different between vehemence vs fulmine

English

Etymology

From Middle French vehemence, from Latin vehementia (“eagerness, strength”), from vehemens (“eager”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi??m?n(t)s/, /?vi?h?m?n(t)s/

Noun

vehemence (usually uncountable, plural vehemences)

1. An intense concentration, force or power.

   The bear attacked with vengeance and vehemence.

2. A wild or turbulent ferocity or fury.

   His response was bursting with hatred and vehemence.

   • 2016 February 6, "Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace," The National (retrieved 8 February 2016):

     This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro.

3. Eagerness, fervor, excessive strong feeling.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 1:

     I could not wonder at the vehemence of her care, her very soul was tenderness […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obstinacy

Related terms

• vehemency
• vehement

Translations

Further reading

• vehemence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vehemence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vehemence at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fulminer, from Latin fulmin? (“lighten, illuminate”). More at fulminate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?lm?n/

Verb

fulmine (third-person singular simple present fulmines, present participle fulmining, simple past and past participle fulmined)

1. (archaic) To thunder or lightning.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:

     And ever and anone the rosy red
     Flasht through her face, as it had been a flake
     Of lightning through bright heven fulmined […]

2. (archaic, figuratively) To utter with authority or vehemence; fulminate.

   • She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique.

Anagrams

• mineful

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: fulminent, fulmines

Verb

fulmine

1. first-person singular present indicative of fulminer
2. third-person singular present indicative of fulminer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fulminer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fulminer
5. second-person singular imperative of fulminer

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fulminem, accusative form of fulmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ful.mi.ne/
• Rhymes: -ulmine
• Hyphenation: fùl?mi?ne

Noun

fulmine m (plural fulmini)

1. lightning

   Synonyms: folgore, saetta

Related terms

• fulminante
• fulminare
• fulminato
• fulminazione
• fulmineo
• fulminio

See also

• tuono

Latin

Noun

fulmine

1. ablative singular of fulmen

Spanish

Verb

fulmine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fulminar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fulminar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fulminar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fulminar.