awrath

present singular third person awraths · participle present awrathing · participle past awrathed · past awrathed · alternative awroth

1. obsoletereflexivetransitiveAnger; enrage.

   Telka arounded and awrathed be like unto a thunder-storm, […]

   1916, Casper Salathiel Yost, Pearl Lenore Pollard Curran, Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery, H. Holt and Company, page 157

1. predicativeWrathful; incensed; enraged; irate.

   Nay, never sneer! Enough! I am awrath today! Give me the gold you owe, or by the saints —

   1908, Miguel Zamacoïs, translated by John Nathan Raphael, The Jesters: A Simple Story in Four Acts of Verse, Brentano’s, page 22

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   ‛Tis an old story: Might awrath with right: A nation conquered and her shrines o’erthrown; Her chieftains flying seaward in the night, And not a trumpet of departure blown.

   1862, Duffy’s Hibernian magazine, volume 2, page 161, “The Flight of the Earls”, lines 1–4

   These are felt in the upper world, where Hine-puia, who personifies volcanoes, is awrath, and who sweeps before her Hine-uku […]

   a. 1931, Elsdon Best, Māori Religion and Mythology: Being an Account of the Cosmogony, Anthropogeny, Religious Beliefs and Rites, Magic and Folk Lore of the Māori Folk of New Zealand, part 2, page 295 (Te Papa Press; →ISBN, 9781877385063)

   But one left me awroth and went in unto thy table. I tarried, till his anger was blown out.

   1976, “Collected Early poems of Ezra Pound”, in Malrin, →ISBN, page 34

   After awhile, Guest Gulkan no longer knew whether he was alive or dead, awake or awrath in nightmare.

   2006, Hugh Cook, The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 491

1. uncountablewrath

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   Moroni expected no positive response, saying, “Ye have once rejected these things, and have fought against the people of the Lord, even so I may expect you will do it again. And now behold, we are prepared to receive you; yea, and except you withdraw your purposes, behold, ye will pull down the awrath of that God whom you have rejected upon you, even to your utter destruction” (v. 8–9).

   2008, Randal Chase, Making Precious Things Plain: A Book of Mormon Study Guide, Cedar Fort, →ISBN, page 128, →ISBN

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of awrah