Eumenides

Eumenides [yoo-men-i-deez] Examples noun

1. (used with a plural verb) Classical Mythology. a euphemistic name for the Furies, meaning “the Kindly Ones.”
2. (italics) (used with a singular verb) a tragedy (485 b.c.) by Aeschylus.

Compare Oresteia. Examples from the Web for eumenides Historical Examples of eumenides

And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this disparity.

Essays, Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A similar opinion is enunciated by schylus in the ‘Eumenides’ (647, 648).

The Articles of Faith

James E. Talmage

Only, she was quite too flattering, really, about Orestes pursued by the Eumenides.’

Babylon, Volume 2 (of 3)

Grant Allen

Eumenides: Did she, thou bloody one, not bear thee neath her heart?

Woman and Socialism

August Bebel

The Eumenides accordingly do not recognize the right of the father and husband.

Woman and Socialism

August Bebel

British Dictionary definitions for eumenides Eumenides pl n

1. another name for the Furies, used by the Greeks as a euphemism

Word Origin for Eumenides from Greek, literally: the benevolent ones, from eumenēs benevolent, from eu- + menos spirit Word Origin and History for eumenides Eumenides

Greek, literally “the well-minded ones,” a euphemism of the Erinys.