v. rare. [f. FIERCE a. + -EN5.] a. trans. To make fierce. To fiercen up: to brush up, enliven. dial. b. intr. To become or grow fierce. Hence Fiercening ppl. a.
1831. J. Wilson, Unimore, ii. 150.
| The NAIAD in the fiercening foam her prow | |
| Buries, and deeply gunwale in, careers | |
| In the blast’s eye, contemptuous of the squall. |
1881. F. W. H. Myers, Wordsworth, 72. Since there is no limit to the soul’s possible elevation, why should her purifying trials have any assignable end? She is a metal which can grow for ever brighter in the fiercening flame.
Mod. Staffordsh., ‘I think it has fiercened her up a bit.’
