wroth
pronunciation
How to pronounce wroth in British English:
UK [rɔ:θ]
How to pronounce wroth in American English:
US [rɔθ]
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- Adjective:
- vehemently incensed and condemnatory
Word Origin
- wroth (adj.)
- Old English wrað "angry" (literally "tormented, twisted"), from Proto-Germanic *wraith- (cognates: Old Frisian wreth "evil," Old Saxon wred, Middle Dutch wret, Dutch wreed "cruel," Old High German reid, Old Norse reiðr "angry, offended"), from PIE *wreit- "to turn" (see wreath). Rare or obsolete from early 16c. to mid-19c., but somewhat revived since, especially in dignified writing, or this: Secretary: "The Dean is furious. He's waxing wroth." Quincy Adams Wagstaf [Groucho]: "Is Roth out there too? Tell Roth to wax the Dean for a while." ["Horse Feathers," 1932]
Example
- 1. And the lord said unto cain , why art thou wroth ?
- 2. Most of the stuff they put out isn 't wroth watching .
- 3. And the sons of jacob came out of the field when they heard : and the men were grieved , and they were very wroth , because he had wrought folly in israel in lying with jacob 's daughter ; which thing ought not to be done .
- 4. For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure , wherewith the lord was wroth against you to destroy you .
- 5. Even in horeb ye have made jehovah wroth , and jehovah sheweth himself angry against you -- to destroy you .