Wrath
[rɒθ;rɔːθ] or [ræθ]
Definition
(noun.) belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins).
(noun.) intense anger (usually on an epic scale).
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Definition
(a.) Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.
(a.) The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.
(a.) See Wroth.
(v. t.) To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Anger, ire, indignation, exasperation, rage, fury, choler, passion, resentment, offence.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ire, passion, rage, fury, anger, exasperation, indignation, resentment
ANT:Gratification, approval, delight, appeasement, pacification, reconciliation,compassion, leniency, mercy
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Definition
n. violent anger: holy indignation: heat.—adj. violently angry.—adj. Wrath′ful full of wrath: very angry: springing from or expressing wrath.—adv. Wrath′fully.—n. Wrath′fulness.—adv. Wrath′ily.—adjs. Wrath′less; Wrath′y apt to wrath.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Anger of a superior quality and degree appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as 'the wrath of God the day of wrath etc. Amongst the ancients the wrath of kings was deemed sacred, for it could usually command the agency of some god for its fit manifestation, as could also that of a priest. The Greeks before Troy were so harried by Apollo that they jumped out of the frying-pan of the wrath of Chryses into the fire of the wrath of Achilles, though Agamemnon, the sole offender, was neither fried nor roasted. A similar noted immunity was that of David when he incurred the wrath of Yahveh by numbering his people, seventy thousand of whom paid the penalty with their lives. God is now Love, and a director of the census performs his work without apprehension of disaster.
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Examples
- I will bear the brunt of his wrath; he will not devour me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her hope had been to avert the wrath of Heaven from a House that had long been hateful to the suffering many. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Very well, gentlemen, very well,' said Mr. Pickwick, rising in person and wrath at the same time; 'you shall hear from my solicitor, gentlemen. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yet as the laugh died, a kind of wrath smote me, and then bitterness followed: it was the rock struck, and Meribah's waters gushing out. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- When the Virgin fled from Herod's wrath, she hid in a grotto in Bethlehem, and the same is there to this day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Let us hope his wrath will have passed away before Miss Crawley's departure. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Come,' said Mr. Brownlow, 'these are not the characteristics of young Oliver Twist; so he needn't excite your wrath. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The vials of pharisaical wrath will be emptied on our heads for our share in this business, he said; but I defy every calumniator. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No, he does not,' said Mr. Brownlow, obviously rising in wrath as he spoke. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Thou be'st a hedge-priest, [46] said the Prior, in great wrath, 'excommunicabo vos'. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Unfortunately, Mr. Davis particularly detested the odor of the fashionable pickle, and disgust added to his wrath. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But celestial imperiousness, love, wrath, and fervour had proved to be somewhat thrown away on netherward Egdon. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A man of wrath! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Then a sudden sharp, white-edged wrath came up in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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