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wrath |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wrath \Wrath\ (?; 277), n. [OE. wrathe, wra[thorn][thorn]e, wrethe, wr[ae][eth][eth]e, AS wr[=ae][eth][eth]o, fr wr[=a][eth] wroth; akin to Icel. rei[eth]i 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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wrath \Wrath\, a. See {Wroth}. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wrath \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wrath n 1: intense anger (usually on an epic scale) 2: belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {anger}, {ire}, {ira}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: 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. X X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them will doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn etc., stands for Christ, not as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name -- _Xristos_. If it represented a cross it would stand for St Andrew, who testified" upon one of that shape. In the algebra of psychology x stands for Woman's mind. Words beginning with X are Grecian and will not be defined in this standard English dictionary Y
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