wrath

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong, personified as one of the deadly sins

   The priest forgave me for the wrath I felt.

2. 2
   noun

   Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.

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

3. 3
   noun

   Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger; (countable) an instance of this.

   The wrath of God.

4. 4
   noun

   Great ardour or passion.

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

The noun is derived from Middle English wraththe, wreththe (“anger, fury, rage; animosity, hostility; deadly sin of wrath; distress, vexation; punishment; retribution (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English wrǣþþu (“ire, wrath”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wraiþiþu (“anger, fury, wrath”), from *wraiþ (“angry, furious, wroth; hostile, violent; bent, twisted”) (from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“angry, furious, wroth; hostile, violent; bent, twisted”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist”)) + *-iþu (suffix forming abstract nouns). Effectively analysable as wroth + -th (abs...

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