Wrath ]
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.
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Wrath, a.
See Wroth.
[Obs.]
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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.
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