Wroken vs Wroten - What's the difference?
wroken | wroten |
(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) (archaic) ; (l).
* 1843, John Hooper, Samuel Carr,
* 1872, John Payne Collier, Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Charles Edward Trevelyan,
As verbs the difference between wroken and wroten
is that wroken is past participle of wreak while wroten is past participle of write; written.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)
wroten
English
Verb
(head)Early Writings of John Hooper - Page 169
- ... I have ones agayne wroten to my cosen Richard Hyll, ...
Trevelyan Papers ... - Page 74
- For the scripture was wroten' to lead us unto God, and unto repentance of ill. It was ' wroten to teach us God and all godliness, and not to move such ...