Meanings
- obsoleteparticiplepastpast participle of wreak
comparative more ywroken · superlative most ywroken
- archaicAvenged.
The Prince […] Pursu'd him streight; in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane and usage bad […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
- Old Englishġeƿrecan
- Englishywroken
From Old English ġeƿrecan, ġewrecan.
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ywroken. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ywroken
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