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Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire. Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed. Spenser. When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased. Esther ii. 1. Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in. Southey.

Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man.

In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully. [Colloq.]

Free from anger or wrath. Waller.

Very angry. [Colloq.]

estion, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. I called him, but he gave me no answer. Cant. v. 6.

o act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise. There arose up a new king . . . which knew not Joseph. Ex. i. 8. The doubts that in his heart arose. Milton.

; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n.

cause of, by reason of, on account of. [Prep. phrase.] Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Eph. v. 6.

y of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display. "Fierce blaze of riot." "His blaze of wrath." Shak. For what is glory but the blaze of fame Milton.

t or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger. Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath. Surrey.

les; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath.

Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. He is rash and very sudden in choler. Shak.

ruel wars, wasting the earth. Milton. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath for it was cruel. Gen. xlix. 7.

ate; used with of; as, to chew the cud of bitter memories. Chewed the thrice turned cudof wrath. Tennyson.

To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath. [Obs.] Spenser.

olemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil). [Obs.] Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx. 18.

round; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon. And on the suitors let thy wrath descend. Pope.

Day of wrath; -- the name and beginning of a famous mediæval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment.

means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.