Tennessee's partner chronicles and inexplicable bond between two men, Tennessee and partner, both crude, unfettered mining camp l men. the basis for their bond is never explained, but it's durable strength is revealed in the fact that their friend while survives a breach of its faith: after Tennessee runs off with his partner's wife, he returnes to Sandy bar and is welcomed back by his friend with out rancor or resentment. theirs is a friendship that transcends marriage tirs- at least for the protagonist, Tennessee's Partner.
Answer:
Aggressive and hostile.
Explanation:
Based on the given excerpt from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", the denotation of the word 'fierceness' as used in the excerpt is aggressive and hostile.
Denotation is simply the representation of a word in its literal sense. According to the excerpt, the narrator explains that facing the fierceness of God for even one moment would be dreadful.
It's a source citation. The name Breenan is the author, and 142 is probably the page this information was found on in Breenan's writing.