Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Wrathful; angry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Excited by wrath; wrathful; indignant; angry: rarely used attributively.
- To become angry; be wrathful; rage.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. vehemently incensed and condemnatory
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English wrāth; see wer-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
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“I should never have spoken of this if I had been 'wroth' with him -- in that way. ”
“And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.”
“And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?”
“I asked Charles, just before he fell asleep, why he was not wroth with them.”
“Then did she complain to her father, the old Pi-Une, and he was very wroth.”
“He said the girl knew not her own mind, and talked overmuch with her, and became wroth that such things should be.”
“She had also the pleasure of being turned away from that door, and of going back up the hill, wroth at heart for the indignity which had been put upon her.”
“So were all his people merry souls, save in anger, when, on occasion, they could be guilty even of throwing dead pigs at those who made them wroth.”
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