Woken vs Wroken - What's the difference?
woken | wroken |
(obsolete)
From Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
The noyse up roos, whan it was first aspyed,
Thorugh al the toun, and generally was spoken,
That Calkas traytor fled was, and allyed
With hem of Grece; and casten to ben wroken
On him that falsly hadde his feith so broken;
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between woken and wroken
is that woken is past participle of lang=en while wroken is past participle of wreak.wroken
English
Verb
(head)The noyse up roos, whan it was first aspyed,
Thorugh al the toun, and generally was spoken,
That Calkas traytor fled was, and allyed
With hem of Grece; and casten to ben wroken
On him that falsly hadde his feith so broken;
(Webster 1913)