Wrathy vs Wrathe - What's the difference?
wrathy | wrathe |
(US) Feeling wrath; very angry, furious.
*1834 , (David Crockett), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p. 64:
*:When I got there, the old lady appeared to be mighty wrathy ; and when I broached the subject, she looked at me as savage as a meat axe.
*2012 , (PZ Myers), (Reason Rally) speech, 24 Mar 2012:
* {{quote-book, year=1775, author=Various, title=Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862, chapter=, edition=
, passage=For shee holdeth dixi et solvavi animam meam to bee a goode rule, and thatt it is nott a goode thinge to goe away with wrathe pente up in ye boosum. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1524, author=Leonard Cox, title=The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The thyrd kynde is: wherin is lauded or blamed no- ther person nor dede / but some other thing as vertue / vice / iustice / iniurie / charite / en- uie / pacience / wrathe / and suche lyke. }}
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Geoffrey Chaucer, title=Troilus and Criseyde, chapter=, edition=
, passage=`And that shal been an huge quantitee, Thus shal I seyn, but, lest it folk aspyde, This may be sent by no wight but by me; I shal eek shewen him, if pees bityde, 1390 What frendes that ich have on every syde Toward the court, to doon the wrathe pace Of Priamus, and doon him stonde in grace. }}
As an adjective wrathy
is feeling wrath; very angry, furious.As a noun wrathe is
obsolete spelling of wrath.wrathy
English
Adjective
(er)- There is a sin that is my favorite. It's one I indulge in several times a day. I kinda like — I really kinda like — wrath. And I am feeling wrathy today.
wrathe
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Noun
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