fraught

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-- fraught, perhaps, with certain biblical connotations -- we might call him Isaac.

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  1. adjective Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama.
  2. adjective Marked by or causing distress; emotional: "an account of a fraught mother-daughter relationship” (Francesca Simon).
  3. noun Scots Freight; cargo.

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  • Only in the ironic context of YU, where we read Bibles as requirements and Talmud as religion, does this somehow become such a fraught issue. —  Your Moral Leader
  • Tension also surfaced on the fraught issue of beer and wine sales in Tisbury. —  Vineyard Gazette - Top Stories
  • Could it be Than Shwe, that so fraught is your clawing lust for power, so malignantly filled with dukka is your mind, so bent you are on consigning yourself to everlasting vajra hell, that you have to silence one who makes others laugh? —  The Moderate Voice
  • And while the outcome is often ethically fraught, as it is now, one has to say: compared to what? —  US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
  • Mr. Obama also waded into the fraught issue of Turkey's relations with Armenia, and the genocide of more than a million Ottoman Armenians beginning in 1915. —  FREEDOM EDEN
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  1. Middle English, past participle of fraughten, to load, from fraght, cargo; see freight, and from Middle Dutch vrachten, to load (from vracht, freight; see aik- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English fraught, frauʒt, fragt, a load, cargo, freight, freight-money (in this sense with a variant freight, freyt, freythe: see quot. under def. 2), from Dutch vracht = Middle Low German vrucht, vrecht, vracht, Low German, fracht (later G. fracht = Danish fragt = Swedish frakt), a load, cargo, freight, apparently orig. the freight-money, = Old High German frēht, gain, profit, reward ( later gi-frēhtōn, earn, gain), prob. = Gothic (Moesogothic) as if *fra-aihts from fra- = Old High German far-, fir- = Anglo-Saxon for-, English for-, + Gothic (Moesogothic) aihts = Old High German ēht = Anglo-Saxon ǣht, property, possessions, literally what is owned, from Gothic (Moesogothic) aigan = Anglo-Saxon āgan, have, own: see owe, own. From the Low German come Old French frait, fret, French fret = Portuguese frete = Spanish flete (Middle Latin frecta, fretta), freight, freightage, to which is due the change of vowel, from fraught to late Middle English and modern English freight: see freight.
  2. from Middle English fraughten, frauʒten, rare except in the past participle fraught, which remains the most common form (in the fig. sense) in modern English; = Dutch be-vrachten = Middle Low German vrachten = German frachten, from Danish fragte = Swedish frakta, lade, load, fraught; from the noun.
 

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