Ire
['aɪə] or ['aɪɚ]
Definition
(n.) Anger; wrath.
Checked by Clive
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Poetical.] Wrath, anger, rage, fury, choler, indignation, resentment, passion, exasperation.
Checker: Micawber
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See WRATH]
Typed by Leona
Definition
n. anger: rage: keen resentment.—adjs. Irate (ī-rāt′ or i-rāt′) enraged: angry; Ire′ful full of ire or wrath: resentful.—adv. Ire′fully.—n. Ire′fulness.
Edited by Daniel
Examples
- He swallowed his ire for the moment, but he afterwards wrote to decline further attendance in the case. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You see, retorted Shirley, with ire, he is a topic on which you and I shall quarrel if we discuss it often; so drop it henceforward and for ever. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It vexed me, it kindled my ire, to find that she neither blushed, trembled, nor looked down. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This observation, having a remote tendency to imply that Mr. Smangle was no gentleman, kindled his ire. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I knew the steely ire I had whetted. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I felt pain, and then I felt ire; and then I felt a determination to subdue her--to be her mistress in spite both of her nature and her will. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Typist: Pearl