Wrath

//ɹɒθ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of wroth (“full of anger; wrathful”). Early, Modern, archaic, obsolete

    "Take heede the Queene come not vvithin his ſight, For Oberon is paſſing fell and vvrath: Becauſe that ſhe, as her attendant, hath A louely boy ſtollen, from an Indian king: She neuer had ſo ſvveete a changeling."

Noun
  1. 1
    Great anger; (countable) an instance of this. formal, uncountable, usually

    "Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles."

  2. 2
    belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) wordnet
  3. 3
    Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger; (countable) an instance of this. uncountable, usually

    "the wrath of God"

  4. 4
    intense anger (usually on an epic scale) wordnet
  5. 5
    Great ardour or passion. obsolete, uncountable, usually

    "[T]hey are in the verie vvrath of loue, and they vvill together. Clubbes cannot part them."

Verb
  1. 1
    To anger (someone); to enrage. Early, Modern, obsolete, transitive

    "[R]emembre howe by thy cursed synnes thou haste offended and wrathed thy lorde god."

  2. 2
    To become angry with (someone). Early, Modern, obsolete, transitive
  3. 3
    To become angry. Early, Modern, intransitive, obsolete

    ""Nay, wrath thee not, Will," said Ganlesse; "and speak no words in haste, lest you may have cause to repent at leisure.[…]""

Etymology

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English wraththe, wreththe (“anger, fury, rage; animosity, hostility; deadly sin of wrath; distress, vexation; punishment; retribution (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English wrǣþþu (“ire, wrath”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wraiþiþu (“anger, fury, wrath”), from *wraiþ (“angry, furious, wroth; hostile, violent; bent, twisted”) (from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“angry, furious, wroth; hostile, violent; bent, twisted”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”)) + *-iþu (suffix forming abstract nouns). Effectively analysable as wroth + -th (abstract nominal suffix). The verb is derived from Middle English wratthen (“to be or become angry, to rage; to quarrel; to cause wrath, offend; to become troubled or vexed; to cause grief or harm, grieve, vex”) [and other forms], from wraththe, wreththe (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Cognates * Danish vrede (“anger, wrath”) * Dutch wreedte (“cruelty”) * Icelandic reiði (“anger”) * Swedish vrede (“anger, ire, wrath”)

Etymology 2

The noun is derived from Middle English wraththe, wreththe (“anger, fury, rage; animosity, hostility; deadly sin of wrath; distress, vexation; punishment; retribution (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English wrǣþþu (“ire, wrath”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wraiþiþu (“anger, fury, wrath”), from *wraiþ (“angry, furious, wroth; hostile, violent; bent, twisted”) (from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“angry, furious, wroth; hostile, violent; bent, twisted”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”)) + *-iþu (suffix forming abstract nouns). Effectively analysable as wroth + -th (abstract nominal suffix). The verb is derived from Middle English wratthen (“to be or become angry, to rage; to quarrel; to cause wrath, offend; to become troubled or vexed; to cause grief or harm, grieve, vex”) [and other forms], from wraththe, wreththe (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs). Cognates * Danish vrede (“anger, wrath”) * Dutch wreedte (“cruelty”) * Icelandic reiði (“anger”) * Swedish vrede (“anger, ire, wrath”)

Etymology 3

A variant of wroth, probably influenced by wrath (noun) (see etymology 1).

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