An avid cyclist, Justine would often fulminate against automobile drivers who ignored bike lanes and otherwise created hazards for those riding on two wheels.
“We say we value memoirs and other nonfiction works precisely because they tell us what really happened. Then, when the amazing true story turns out to be a bit less than absolutely true, some of us fulminate about it for a while, even as countless more continue to pony up for the tale.” โ Laura Miller, Salon, 9 June 2015
Lightning strikes more than once in the history of fulminate. That word comes from the Latin fulminare, meaning “to strike,” a verb usually used to refer to lightning strikesโnot surprising since it sprang from fulmen, Latin for “lightning.” When fulminate was adopted into English in the 15th century, it lost much of its ancestral thunder and was used largely as a technical term for the issuing of formal denunciations by ecclesiastical authorities. But its original lightning spark remains in its suggestion of tirades so vigorous that, as one 18th-century bishop put it, they seem to be delivered “with the air of one who [has] divine Vengeance at his disposal.”


Delightful word! Used it quietly to myself when I heard a lady ‘fulminating’ in a shop this morning. Silly! She got it wrong….had no cause to complain so vociferously. ๐ ๐
I had a similar experience when a woman was trying to return a skirt in M and S!xx
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She looked very well off.. and had clearly worn the skirt all summer!!!xx
So it seems to happen – the more you have the more you want…. ๐น๐น
The assistant fended her off so she stalked away leaving an expensive rain hat on the counter!I’ve known people wear shoes on holiday for a week and then try to get the money back.Yes,it’s the rich who think they are owed even more.