Wroken vs Ywroken - What's the difference?
wroken | ywroken |
(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) (obsolete)
(archaic) Avenged.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
*:The Prince […] Pursu'd him streight; in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane and usage bad […].
In obsolete terms the difference between wroken and ywroken
is that wroken is past participle of wreak while ywroken is past participle of wreak.As an adjective ywroken is
avenged.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)