Awrath

//əˈɹɒθ// adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    wrath uncountable

    "Moroni expected no positive response, saying, “Ye have once rejected these things, and have fought against the people of the Lord, even so I may expect you will do it again. And now behold, we are prepared to receive you; yea, and except you withdraw your purposes, behold, ye will pull down the awrath of that God whom you have rejected upon you, even to your utter destruction” (v. 8–9)."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of awrah alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    Anger; enrage. obsolete, reflexive, transitive

    "Telka arounded and awrathed be like unto a thunder-storm, […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Wrathful; incensed; enraged; irate. predicative

    "‛Tis an old story: Might awrath with right: A nation conquered and her shrines o’erthrown; Her chieftains flying seaward in the night, And not a trumpet of departure blown."

Example

More examples

"Telka arounded and awrathed be like unto a thunder-storm, […]"

Etymology

From Old English ġewrāþian; equivalent to the a- + wrath.

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