Meaning of Wrath | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.
   formal, uncountable, usually
2. Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger; (countable) an instance of this.
   uncountable, usually
3. Great ardour or passion.
   obsolete, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.”

“Let all bitternes, fearſnes and wrath, rorynge and curſyd ſpeakynge, be put awaye from you, with all maliciouſnes.”

“Thou barrein ground, whome winters wrath hath waſted, Art made a myrrhour, to behold my plight: […]”

“I tel you true my hart is ſwolne with wrath, On this ſame theeuiſh villain Tamburlain.”

“[H]im ſo far had borne his light-foot ſteede, Pricked vvith vvrath and fiery fierce diſdaine, That him to follovv vvas but fruitleſſe paine; […]”

“VVho (in my vvrath) Kneel'd and^([sic – meaning at]) my feet, and bid me be aduis'd?”

“Lingring perdition (vvorſe then any death Can be at once) ſhall ſtep, by ſtep attend You, and your vvayes, vvhoſe vvraths, to guard you from, VVhich here, in this moſt deſolate Iſle, elſe fals Vpon your heads, is nothing but hearts-ſorrovv, And a cleere life enſuing.”

“[S]tern briſtles hedg'd up high His back, vvhich did all vvrath of thorns defie.”

“[C]ome not near me to night, vvhile I'm in vvrath.”

“The Seer, vvho could not yet his VVrath aſſvvage, Rovvl'd his green Eyes, that ſparkl'd vvith his Rage; […]”

“For vvhen he knevv his Rival freed and gone, He ſvvells vvith VVrath; he makes outrageous Moan: He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; The hollowvv Tovv'r vvith Clamours rings around: […]”

“VVhat Drop or Noſtrum can this Plague remove? Or vvhich muſt end me, a Fool's VVrath or Love?”

“Then nature injur'd, ſcandaliz'd, defil'd, Unveil'd her bluſhing cheek, look'd on and ſmil'd, Beheld vvith joy the lovely ſcene defac'd, And prais'd the vvrath that lay'd her beauties vvaſte.”

“[…] Miſs Margland, in deep vvrath, refuſed to let her move a ſtep.”

“But quickly Peter's mood is chang'd, And on he drives with cheeks that burn In downright fury and in wrath— […]”

“When lo! a wasted Female form, Blighted by wrath of sun and storm, In tattered weeds and wild array, Stood on a cliff beside the way, […]”

“[S]he remained still: except that she clenched her arms tighter and tighter within each other, on her bosom, as if to restrain them by that means from doing an injury to herself, or some one else, in the blind fury of the wrath that suddenly possessed her.”

“His chafing, bleeding temper is one raw; his whole soul one rage, and wrath, and fever.”

“How sweetly would she glide between your wraths, And steal you from each other!”

“We come in charity and good will, but we may go in wrath.”

“The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?”

“the wrath of God”

“[…] I [i.e., God] gaue the [thee] a kinge in my wrath, and in my diſpleaſure will I take him from the agayne.”

“[H]e is the miniſter of God, a reuenger to execute wrath vpon him that doeth euill.”

“And though not mortall, yet a cold ſhuddring devv Dips me all o'e[r], as vvhen the vvrath of Iove Speaks thunder, and the chaines of Erebus To ſome of Saturns crevv.”

Comus

“He to appeaſe thy wrauth, and end the ſtrife Of Mercy and Juſtice in thy face diſcern'd, Regardleſs of the Bliſs wherein hee ſat Second to thee, offerd himſelf to die For mans offence.”

“[T]he vvrath of God cometh upon the children of diſobedience.”

“[T]hey are in the verie vvrath of loue, and they vvill together. Clubbes cannot part them.”

“[I]f you hold your life at any price, betake you to your gard: for your oppoſite hath in him vvhat youth, ſtrength, skill, and vvrath, can furniſh man vvithall.”

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