Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Wrath"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wrath \Wrath\ (?; 277), n. [OE. wrathe, wra[thorn][thorn]e,
wrethe, wr[ae][eth][eth]e, AS. wr[=ae][eth][eth]o, fr.
wr[=a][eth] wroth; akin to Icel. rei[eth]i wrath. See
{Wroth}, a.]
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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wrath \Wrath\, a.
See {Wroth}. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wrath \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

wrath
n 1: intense anger (usually on an epic scale)
2: belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong
(personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {anger}, {ire},
{ira}]

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