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wrath

AUSRATH/ɹæθ/UKROTH/ɹɒθ/

6 meanings of wrath

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  1. 1
    great angernounformaluncountable
    Very strong anger.

    She was more afraid of her father's wrath than of any punishment.

    The angry fans turned their wrath on the referee.

    UsageSay the wrath of someone. Anger is the everyday word.

    Similarfury, rage, ire, indignation, resentment

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  2. 2
    punishmentnoununcountable
    Punishment or revenge that comes because someone is angry.

    The villagers feared the wrath of the gods if they broke the old rules.

    The sailors who rebelled soon felt the captain's wrath.

    UsageOften heard in the wrath of God.

    Similarvengeance, retribution, punishment

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  3. 3
    full of angeradjectiveobsolete
    Very angry.
    Lovel, seldom angry, was violently wrath with his brother-in-law; and, almost always polite, was at breakfast scarcely civil to Lady Baker.
    1860, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “A Black Sheep”Here, wrath means very angry.
    I felt wrath with her. My heart so cherished my harmless, defenceless Lilian, that I was jealous of the praise taken from her to be bestowed on another.
    1861, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], A Strange Story
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Less common meanings

  1. 4
    nounobsoleteuncountable
    Very strong passion or eagerness.
    [T]hey are in the verie vvrath of loue, and they vvill together. Clubbes cannot part them.
    c. 1598, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”Here, wrath means very strong passion or eagerness.
    [I]f you hold your life at any price, betake you to your gard: for your oppoſite hath in him vvhat youth, ſtrength, skill, and vvrath, can furniſh man vvithall.
    c. 1601, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”Here, wrath means fierce passion and eagerness to fight.
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  2. 5
    make angryverbobsoletetransitive
    To make someone very angry.
    [R]emembre howe by thy cursed synnes thou haste offended and wrathed thy lorde god.
    [1506?], Jacobus van Gruitroede, The Mirroure of Golde for the Synfull SouleHere, wrathed means made very angry.
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  3. 6
    verbobsoleteintransitive
    To get angry, sometimes at a certain person.
    God is a righteous judge, strong and patient, and God wratheth every day.
    1860, E[dward] B[ouverie] Pusey, “Nahum”Here, wratheth means becomes angry.
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Origins

Meanings 1–2, 4–6

From the Old English word wrǣþþu, “anger,” which goes back to an old root meaning “to twist.”

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Meaning 3

Another form of wroth, probably shaped by the noun wrath.

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