wroth

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ɹəʊθ/
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/ɹəʊθ/ · /ɹɒθ/ · /ɹɔθ/ · /ɹɑθ/

Definition of wroth

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic, formal)Full of anger; wrathful.
    “But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.”
    “You behold, Sir, how he waxeth Wroth at your Abode here.”
    “And to be wroth with one we love, / Doth work like madness in the brain.”
    “But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.”
    “At this Sir Launcelot was very wroth; for he could not abide seeing a fellow-knight of the Round Table treated with such disregard as that which Sir Gaheris suffered at the hands of Sir Turquine; […]”

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Etymology

From Middle English wroth, wrooth, from Old English wrāþ, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to turn”). Akin to Saterland Frisian wreed (“haughty; proud”), Old Saxon wrēd (“evil”) (Dutch wreed (“cruel”)), Old High German reid (“cruel”), Old Norse reiðr (“angry”) (Danish vred, Swedish vred).

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