Incensed vs Wroth - What's the difference?
incensed | wroth | Related terms |
Enraged]]; [[infuriate, infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry.
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(incense)
Full of anger; wrathful.
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* 1793,
* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
* 1936 , (Dale Carnegie), (How to Win Friends and Influence People) , Part 3, Chapter 4
Incensed is a related term of wroth.
As adjectives the difference between incensed and wroth
is that incensed is enraged]]; [[infuriate|infuriated; spitefully or furiously angry while wroth is full of anger; wrathful.As a verb incensed
is (incense).incensed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Ferguson was incensed as referee Martin Atkinson pointed to the spot - and United's sense of injustice deepened when Nemanja Vidic was sent off in stoppage time after receiving a second yellow card for a foul on Ramires, ruling the centre-back out of the visit to Liverpool on Sunday. }}
Verb
(head)wroth
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Adjective
(en adjective)- But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth , and his countenance fell.
- And to be wroth with one we love,
- Doth work like madness in the brain.
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
- Business men are learning that it pays to be friendly to strikers. For example, when two thousand five hundred employees in the White Motor Company's plant struck for higher wages and a union shop, Robert F. Black, the president, didn't wax wroth and condemn, and threaten and talk of tyranny and Communists. He actually praised the strikers. He published an advertisement in the Cleveland papers, complimenting them on "the peaceful way in which they laid down their tools." [...]
