Definition of Wrth

Definition of Wrth

Wrath (?; 277), n. [OE. wrathe, wraþþe, wrethe, wræððe, AS. wr&aemacr;ððo, fr. wrāð wroth; akin to Icel. reiði wrath. See Wroth, a.]

1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.

Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed.

Spenser.

When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased.

Esther ii. 1.

Now smoking and frothing
Its tumult and wrath in.

Southey.

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.

Syn. -- Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion. See Anger.

Wrath, a. See Wroth. [Obs.]

Wrath, v. t. To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally. [Obs.] "I will not wrathen him." Chaucer.

If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun.

Piers Plowman.

Wrath (?; 277), n. [OE. wrathe, wraþþe, wrethe, wræððe, AS. wr&aemacr;ððo, fr. wrāð wroth; akin to Icel. reiði wrath. See Wroth, a.]

1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.

Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed.

Spenser.

When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased.

Esther ii. 1.

Now smoking and frothing
Its tumult and wrath in.

Southey.

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.

Syn. -- Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion. See Anger.

Wrath, a. See Wroth. [Obs.]

Wrath, v. t. To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally. [Obs.] "I will not wrathen him." Chaucer.

If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun.

Piers Plowman.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to
exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God,"
"the day of wrath," etc. Amongst the ancients the wrath of kings was
deemed sacred, for it could usually command the agency of some god for
its fit manifestation, as could also that of a priest. The Greeks
before Troy were so harried by Apollo that they jumped out of the
frying-pan of the wrath of Cryses into the fire of the wrath of
Achilles, though Agamemnon, the sole offender, was neither fried nor
roasted. A similar noted immunity was that of David when he incurred
the wrath of Yahveh by numbering his people, seventy thousand of whom
paid the penalty with their lives. God is now Love, and a director of
the census performs his work without apprehension of disaster.

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

great anger

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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