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wrath | wrathfully |

As a noun wrath

is great anger.

As an adjective wrath

is (rare) wrathful; very angry.

As a verb wrath

is (obsolete) to anger; to enrage.

As an adverb wrathfully is

in a wrathful manner; with anger; angrily.

wrath

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Great anger.
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  • (rare) Punishment.
  • * Bible, (w) xiii. 4
    • A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
  • (trading card games, slang) A single card that is able to destroy many creatures.

    • Synonyms

    * (great anger) fury, ire

    Derived terms

    * grapes of wrath * wrathful

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Wrathful; very angry.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To anger; to enrage.
  • * (Chaucer)
  • * (Piers Plowman)
    • (Webster 1913)

    wrathfully

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a wrathful manner; with anger; angrily.
  • * 1992 , Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground , Courier Dover Publications, pages 11 [http://books.google.com/books?id=mup56neMVDEC&pg=PA11&dq=wrathfully+Dostoyevsky&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&sig=EaX2AJ4BeU7Oss8qYH9wh17oom8]
    • Of course, a minute or so later I would realise wrathfully that it was all a lie, a revolting lie, an affected lie, that is, all this penitence, this emotion, these vows of reform.

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