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Ira   /ˈaɪrə/  /ˈaɪˈɑrˈeɪ/   Listen
Ira

noun
1.
A militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland.  Synonyms: Irish Republican Army, Provisional IRA, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provos.
2.
A retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement; taxes on the interest earned in the account are deferred.  Synonym: individual retirement account.
3.
Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins).  Synonyms: anger, ire, wrath.



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"Ira" Quotes from Famous Books



... va bien—Ca ira," were the only answers they deigned to make: frequently they continued smoking their pipes in obdurate silence. She occupied the back rooms of her house, because her guards apprehended that she ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. 6 • Maria Edgeworth

... command of Admiral Hotham. You may be sure that we kept a bright look-out for the enemy. At last they hove in sight, and one of our frigates, the 'Inconstant,' got so close that she brought to action the 'Ca Ira,' a French eighty-four, which had carried away her main and foretop masts. The 'Inconstant,' however, was obliged to bear away, and a French frigate came up and took the line-of-battle ship in tow, while two other line-of-battle ships guarded ...
— The Grateful Indian - And other Stories • W.H.G. Kingston

... of the Christian Science Journal, presided over the exercises. On the platform with him were Messrs. Ira O. Knapp, Joseph Armstrong, Stephen A. Chase, and William B. Johnson, who compose the board of directors, and Mrs. Henrietta Clark Bemis, a distinguished elocutionist, and a native of Concord, ...
— Pulpit and Press (6th Edition) • Mary Baker Eddy

... a Yankee, for I am a Yankee myself. His name was Ira Norris. He had been given an office in Platte county, Mo., and must needs be a partisan for the peculiar institution. I gave my friend Norris to understand that I would try to attend to my ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler

... foco, che t'arde Segui l'amor, che ti consuma, Ingrato. M in vano ti Lusinghi Che l'arti mie sapran farti morire. M cielo, e come! Morir far chi vita di quest' alma? Ah' che gi sento in petto Che l'Odio, e l'ira ...
— Amadigi di Gaula - Amadis of Gaul • Nicola Francesco Haym


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