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noun

Wrath n.

Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire. "Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed." "When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased." "Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in."

The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime. "A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil."

Synonyms: Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion. See Anger.

verb

Wrath v. t. To anger; to enrage; also used impersonally. (Obs.) "I will not wrathen him." "If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun."

adjective

Wrath adj. See Wroth. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Wrath'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... wrath of the ambitious Ali. He swore vengeance for the spoliation of which he considered himself the victim. But the moment was not favourable for putting his projects in train. The murder of Capelan, which its perpetrator intended ...

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... finally an even greater inability than his sons to say "No" to a charming woman! Storm he never so wildly, the Major would undoubtedly have ended by consenting to Mrs Wallace's plea, while Esmeralda's wrath would be kept within bounds by ...

— More about Pixie • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... the pedigree of humor: the union of truth and goodness produces wit; that of wit with wrath produces humor. We should say that this was rather a pedigree of satire. For what trace of wrath is there in the humor of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Fielding, or Thackeray? The absence of wrath is the characteristic ...

— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell

... said that he was the Messiah whose anointing and work the prophet had foretold. For a time the people listened spellbound to his gracious words, and then they began to grow angry, that he whom they knew as the carpenter of their village should make such an astounding claim. They rose up in wrath, thrust him out of the synagogue, and would have hurled him over the precipice had he not eluded them and gone ...

— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller

... disliking, thinking, feeling, and willing, we make him like a man. And not to do this may be speculative theism, but is practical atheism. Moses forbade the Jews to make any image or likeness of God, yet the Pentateuch speaks of his jealousy, wrath, repentance; he hardens Pharaoh's heart, changes his mind about Balaam, and comes down from heaven in order to see if the people of Sodom were as wicked as they were represented to be. These views are limitations to the perfections of ...

— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke

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