/ɹɒθ/, /ɹɔːθ/, /ɹɑːθ/
OriginA variant of wroth, probably influenced by wrath (noun) (see etymology 1).
- formal, uncountable, usuallyGreat anger; (countable) an instance of this.
“Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.”
“Let all bitternes, fearſnes and wrath, rorynge and curſyd ſpeakynge, be put awaye from you, with all maliciouſnes.”
“Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath waſted,
Art made a myrrhour, to behold my plight: […]”
- uncountable, usuallyPunishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger; (countable) an instance of this.
“the wrath of God”
“[…] I [i.e., God] gaue the [thee] a kinge in my wrath, and in my diſpleaſure will I take him from the agayne.”
“[H]e is the miniſter of God, a reuenger to execute wrath vpon him that doeth euill.”
- obsolete, uncountable, usuallyGreat ardour or passion.
“[T]hey are in the verie vvrath of loue, and they vvill together. Clubbes cannot part them.”
“[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.”
- Early, Modern, obsolete, transitiveTo anger (someone); to enrage.
“[R]emembre howe by thy cursed synnes thou haste offended and wrathed thy lorde god.”
“Of ire yͤ whiche is agayne god. […] A man wratheth hym ayenst god for many thynges, pryncypally for the flagellacions, aduersytees, fortunes, sykenesses, & mortalytees, losses, punycyons, famyne, warr”
“And than the byſſhop ſayd vnto the clerke⸝ thou haſt wrathed me⸝ but yf thou wylte be ſory thou ſhalte haue my loue as thou haddeſt before⸝ & I ſhall gyue the [i.e., thee] the benefyce yͭ I haue promy”
- Early, Modern, obsolete, transitiveTo become angry with (someone).
- Early, Modern, intransitive, obsoleteTo become angry.
“"Nay, wrath thee not, Will," said Ganlesse; "and speak no words in haste, lest you may have cause to repent at leisure.[…]"”
“God is a righteous judge, strong and patient, and God wratheth every day.”
- Early, Modern, archaic, obsoleteSynonym of wroth (“full of anger; wrathful”).
“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 ſvveet”
“VVhereat the Prince full vvrath, his ſtrong right hand
In full auengement heaued vp on hie,
And ſtroke the Pagan vvith his ſteely brand
So ſore, that to his ſaddle bovv thereby
He bovved lovv, and”
“And Pharao being a vvrath againſt them (for the one vvas chiefe of the cupbearers, the other chiefe baker) he ſent them into the priſon of the captaine of the ſouldiers, in the vvhich Ioſeph alſo vvas”
Formswraths(plural) · wraths(present, singular, third-person) · wrathing(participle, present) · wrathed(participle, past) · wrathed(past) · wrath(infinitive) · wrath(first-person, present, singular) · wrathed(first-person, past, singular) · wrath(present, second-person, singular) · wrathest(archaic, present, second-person, singular) · wrathed(past, second-person, singular) · wrathedst(archaic, past, second-person, singular) · wratheth(archaic, present, singular, third-person) · wrathed(past, singular, third-person) · wrath(plural, present) · wrathed(past, plural) · wrath(present, subjunctive) · wrathed(past, subjunctive) · wrath(imperative, present) · -(imperative, past)