Wroth Definition

rôth
adjective
Angry; wrathful; incensed.
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Origin of Wroth

  • Middle English wroth, wrooth, from Old English wrāþ, from Proto-Germanic *wraiþaz (“cruel"), from Proto-Indo-European *wreit- (“to turn"). Akin to Old Frisian wrēþ (“evil"), Old Saxon wrÄ“d (“evil") (Dutch wreed (“cruel")), Old High German reid (“cruel"), Old Norse reiðr (“angry") (Danish vred, Swedish vred).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English wrāth wer-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Wroth Sentence Examples

  • He hated vital religion and grew wroth at every manifestation of it.

  • Needless to say I waxed wroth, and left none that I could find alive.

  • And you, when the sovereign grace of the gospel comes to you, are " very wroth.

  • In the summer she returned to Coppet and wroth a pamphlet (Reflexions sur le proces de la refine) on the queen's execution.

  • Under the later reigns the Tyche figure (the personification of a Greek city) becomes common as a coin type (Wroth, Coins of Parthia, pp. liii., lxxiv.).

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