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The one thing in the book written by James H. Blount which aroused my ire was his characterization of Colonel Denby as a hypocrite.

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  1. noun Anger; wrath. See Synonyms at anger.

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  • The object of his ire was the trailer for Ubisoft's newest Prince Of Persia title, ‭ ‬ which leans heavily on the melancholy pop song ‭ '‬ Breathe Me ‭' ‬, ‭ ‬ along with slow-motion game footage to evoke the intensity of the relationship between the Prince and his companion Elika. ‭ —  Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today
  • And quite often, the recipients of their hateful ire are the most helpless among us. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • In Rudd's case, his ire is directed at the genteel culture of Columbia: —  Chicago Indymedia
  • What initially aroused my ire was that CBS Evening News offered 3 minutes of coverage of Darfur in the course of all of 2004, while the three broadcast networks collectively offered —  Nicholas D. Kristof
  • The object of their ire was the outspoken conservative William F. Buckley Jr. —  Commonweal Magazine
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin īra; see eis- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ire, yre, abbreviation of iren, iron.
  2. from Middle English ire, yre, from Old French ire = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian ira, from Latin ira, anger, wrath.
  3. from Middle English iren; from ire, n.
 

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