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Brame vs Grame - What's the difference?

brame | grame |

In obsolete terms the difference between brame and grame

is that brame is sharp passion; vexation while grame is sorrow; grief; misery.

As a verb grame is

to vex; grill; make angry or sorry.

brame

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) sharp passion; vexation
  • * Spenser, The Fairie Queene , Book III, Canto II, 52
    • ... hart-burning brame / She shortly like a pyned ghost became.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    grame

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) grame, gram, grome, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.
    • (Chaucer)
  • * c. 1557 (published), Sir Thomas Wyatt, And Wilt Thou Leave me Thus? , lines 3 and 4:
    • To save thee from the blame / Of all my grief and grame .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) gramen, gramien, from (etyl) gramian, .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (gram)
  • (obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
  • (obsolete) To grieve; be sorry.
    • Related terms
    * (l) ----