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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Forceful, often vindictive anger. See Synonyms at anger.
  2. n. Punishment or vengeance as a manifestation of anger.
  3. n. Divine retribution for sin.
  4. adj. Archaic Wrathful.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Fierce anger; vehement indignation; rage.
  2. n. Heat; impetuosity.
  3. n. The effects of anger; the just punishment of an offense or crime; vengeance.
  4. n. =Syn.1. Anger, Vexation, Indignation, etc. (see anger).
  5. An obsolete (in early modern use erroneous) form of wroth.
  6. To become wroth or angry; manifest anger.
  7. To make wroth or angry; cause wrath or anger in; anger; enrage.
  8. To be angry with; exhibit anger or wrath to.

Wiktionary

  1. n. great anger
  2. n. punishment.
  3. adj. Wrathful; very angry.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.
  2. n. The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.
  3. adj. See wroth.
  4. v. To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
  2. n. intense anger (usually on an epic scale)

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English wrǣththu, from wrāth, angry; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.

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