wrath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English wratthe (“anger, hostility, distress 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); compare Dutch wreedte.
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 wratthe, wretthe (noun) (see above) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).
Base: wroth
Affixes: -th
Inflected forms:
form: wraths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: formal
uncountable
usually
examples: 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: […]
I tel you true my hart is ſwolne with wrath,
 On this ſame theeuiſh villain Tamburlain.
[H]im ſo far had borne his light-foot ſteede,
 Pricked vvith vvrath and fiery fierce diſdaine,
 That him to follovv vvas but fruitleſſe paine; […]
VVho (in my vvrath)
 Kneel'd and^([sic – meaning at]) my feet, and bid me be aduis'd?
Lingring perdition (vvorſe then any death
 Can be at once) ſhall ſtep, by ſtep attend
 You, and your vvayes, vvhoſe vvraths, to guard you from,
 VVhich here, in this moſt deſolate Iſle, elſe fals
 Vpon your heads, is nothing but hearts-ſorrovv,
 And a cleere life enſuing.
[S]tern briſtles hedg'd up high
 His back, vvhich did all vvrath of thorns defie.
[C]ome not near me to night, vvhile I'm in vvrath.
The Seer, vvho could not yet his VVrath aſſvvage,
 Rovvl'd his green Eyes, that ſparkl'd vvith his Rage; […]
For vvhen he knevv his Rival freed and gone,
 He ſvvells vvith VVrath; he makes outrageous Moan:
 He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground;
 The hollowvv Tovv'r vvith Clamours rings around: […]
VVhat Drop or Noſtrum can this Plague remove?
 Or vvhich muſt end me, a Fool's VVrath or Love?
Then nature injur'd, ſcandaliz'd, defil'd,
 Unveil'd her bluſhing cheek, look'd on and ſmil'd,
 Beheld vvith joy the lovely ſcene defac'd,
 And prais'd the vvrath that lay'd her beauties vvaſte.
[…] Miſs Margland, in deep vvrath, refuſed to let her move a ſtep.
But quickly Peter's mood is chang'd,
 And on he drives with cheeks that burn
 In downright fury and in wrath— […]
When lo! a wasted Female form,
 Blighted by wrath of sun and storm,
 In tattered weeds and wild array,
 Stood on a cliff beside the way, […]
[S]he remained still: except that she clenched her arms tighter and tighter within each other, on her bosom, as if to restrain them by that means from doing an injury to herself, or some one else, in the blind fury of the wrath that suddenly possessed her.
His chafing, bleeding temper is one raw; his whole soul one rage, and wrath, and fever.
How sweetly would she glide between your wraths,
 And steal you from each other!
We come in charity and good will, but we may go in wrath.
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
gloss: Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
And though not mortall, yet a cold ſhuddring devv
 Dips me all o'e[r], as vvhen the vvrath of Iove
 Speaks thunder, and the chaines of Erebus
 To ſome of Saturns crevv.
He to appeaſe thy wrauth, and end the ſtrife
 Of Mercy and Juſtice in thy face diſcern'd,
 Regardleſs of the Bliſs wherein hee ſat
 Second to thee, offerd himſelf to die
 For mans offence.
[T]he vvrath of God cometh upon the children of diſobedience.
gloss: Great ardour or passion.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: [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.
Related words: wroth
Derived words: grapes of wrath
like the wrath of God
unwrathful
unwrathfully
wrathful
wrathfully
wrathfulness
wrathless
wrathlessness
wrathy
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