Grame vs Crame - What's the difference?
grame | crame |
(obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
(obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.
* c. 1557 (published), Sir Thomas Wyatt, And Wilt Thou Leave me Thus? , lines 3 and 4:
(obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
(obsolete) To grieve; be sorry.
* {{quote-book, 1599, chapter=The Fardle of Facions, author=William Waterman, title=Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, by=Johannes Boemus, editor=
, passage=Certaine of the Tartarres, professing the name of Christe, yet farre from his righteousnes: when their parentes waxe aged, to haste their death, crame them with gobins of fatte. }}
As verbs the difference between grame and crame
is that grame is while crame is .grame
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) grame, gram, grome, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(-)- (Chaucer)
- (Chaucer)
- 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)crame
English
Verb
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