'Wrath' definitions:
Definition of 'wrath'
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Definition of 'Wrath'
From: GCIDE
- Wrath \Wrath\, v. t. To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally. [Obs.] "I will not wrathen him." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wrath'
From: GCIDE
- Wrath \Wrath\ (?; 277), n. [OE. wrathe, wra[thorn][thorn]e, wrethe, wr[ae][eth][eth]e, AS. wr[=ae][eth][eth]o, fr. wr[=a][eth] wroth; akin to Icel. rei[eth]i wrath. See Wroth, a.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire. [1913 Webster]
- Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased. --Esther ii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in. --Southey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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." --Rom. xiii. 4. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion. See Anger. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wrath'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a transient madness,
- acedia,
- acerbity,
- acrimony,
- anger,
- angriness,
- asperity,
- avarice,
- avaritia,
- deadly sin,
- enragement,
- envy,
- fury,
- gluttony,
- grapes of wrath,
- greed,
- gula,
- heat,
- indignation,
- infuriation,
- invidia,
- ira,
- irateness,
- ire,
- lust,
- luxuria,
- mad,
- offense,
- pride,
- rage,
- resentment,
- saeva indignatio,
- sloth,
- soreness,
- superbia,
- vials of wrath,
- wrathfulness