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Wreake vs Wrake - What's the difference?

wreake | wrake |

As a verb wreake

is obsolete spelling of wreak.

As a noun wrake is

suffering which comes as a result of vengeance or retribution.

wreake

English

Verb

(head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="And, in avengement of their bold attempt, Both sun and starres and all the heavenly powres Conspire in one to wreake their rash contempt, And downe on them to fall from highest towres: 580 The skie, in pieces seeming to be rent, Throwes lightning forth, and haile, and harmful showres, That death on everie side to them appeares, In thousand formes, to worke more ghastly feares. }}

    wrake

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Suffering which comes as a result of vengeance or retribution.
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