Grame
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance. obsolete, uncountable
- 2 Sorrow; grief; misery. obsolete, uncountable
"to save the from the Blame of all my greffe & grame"
- 1 To vex; grill; make angry or sorry. obsolete, transitive
"Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail. For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail."
- 2 To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased. intransitive, obsolete
"The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame."
Example
More examples"to save the from the Blame of all my greffe & grame"
Etymology
From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gram (“angry”), Dutch gram (“wrath”), Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adjective), grim.
From Middle English gramen, gramien, from Old English gramian, gremian (“to anger, enrage”), from Proto-Germanic *gramjaną (“to grill, vex, irritate, grieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with German grämen (“to grieve”), Danish græmme (“to grieve”), Swedish gräma (“to grieve, mortify, vex”).
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