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▪ I. anger, n.|ˈæŋgə(r)|
Also 4–5 angyr, -gir, 4–6 angre, 5 angar.
[a. ON. angr trouble, affliction, f. root ang strait, straitened, troubled: see ange.]
†1. That which pains or afflicts, or the passive feeling which it produces; trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow. Obs.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 972 Ȝhe held hire hard in ðralles wune, And dede hire sorȝe and anger mune. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 3517 Na man may to heven ga, Bot-if he thole here anger and wa. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 321 Thir angrys may I na mar drey. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xxii. 291 To suffren al þat god sente · syknesses and angres. c1440Gesta Rom. 243 Deliuer me from this anger þat I dwelle in. 1475Caxton Jason 76 b, For the deth of whiche childe the anger and sorow was moche the more.
2. a. The active feeling provoked against the agent; passion, rage; wrath, ire, hot displeasure.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 572 Þe anger of his ire þat arȝed monye. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 825 Neuere eft ne was ther Angre [v.r. angyr, -er] hem bitwene. 1393Gower Conf. I. 282 Ne couth I after that be wroth, But all min anger overgoth. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 185/4 In an angre [he] toke his swerde and smote of the heed of thys holy man. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Paraphr. Eph. iv. 26 (R.) Restrayn your angre, whan it would barst out. 1552Latimer Serm. Lord's Prayer iv. II. 57 A man slain openly of another man in an anger. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, iii. ii. 92 May be he heares the King Does whet his Anger to him. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii, Anger, which is a desire of revenge; Hatred, which is inveterate anger. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 168 Anger is a vehement heat of the minde, which brings palenesse to the countenance, burning to the eyes, and trembling to the parts of the body. 1690Locke Hum. Underst. ii. xx. (1695) 122 Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the Mind upon the receit of any Injury, with a present purpose of Revenge. 1754Chatham Lett. Nephew v. 39 Anger, that dæmon, that destroyer of our peace. 1875H. E. Manning Mission H. Ghost xiv. 393 Anger has its proper use. Anger is the executive power of justice.
b. As a literary nonce-use (quot. 1937). Later with overt or implicit reference to J. Osborne's play Look Back in Anger (first performed 1956). Cf. angry a. 3 c.
1937H. G. Wells Brynhild vii. 100 It brings my Anger back. I am an Angry Man... Almost professionally. You don't know my books? 1957J. Holloway in Hudson Rev. Autumn 424 Notes on the ‘School of Anger’. Ibid. 426 The anger of Sassoon's war poem was not, of course, the kind..of Amis, Wain, Osborne, etc. 1958Spectator 4 July 17/3 Students here have become sceptical about protest campaigns, petitions and the Anger Cult.
3. Physical affliction or pain; inflammatory state of any part of the body. (Still dial.)
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 335, I cacche..an ague in suche an angre, and some tyme a feure. a1500MS. Lincoln A i. 17. 305 (Halliw.) Anoynte hym fyrste with popilione if he hafe anger in his lyver. 1659Hammond On Ps. lviii. 9 Rawness and anger (in that dialect, wherein we call a sore angry). a1698Temple (J.) Where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
4. Comb. (mostly poet.)
a. attrib., as anger-glow;
b. objective, as anger-kindling;
c. instrumental, as anger-boiling, anger-coddled, anger-lined, anger-swollen.
1851H. Melville Whales xxxvi. 181 My heat has melted thee to anger-glow. 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. ii. vii, Anger-boyling blood. 1651Cleveland Miser 29 Ajax with his anger-codled brain. 1879Spect. 6 Sept. 1128/2 The sea had scarcely a wrinkle on the salt face which but a night or two before had looked anger-lined and wind-worn. 1839Bailey Festus vii. (1848) 70 Through anger-swollen wave or sparkling spray.
▸ anger management n. orig. U.S. control of one's anger, esp. when the emotion is frequently felt and is likely to result in violent behaviour; freq. attrib., esp. designating a course, support group, etc., which helps achieve this control.
[1963Jrnl. Health & Human Behaviour 4 104 Mortality rates for the fifty leading causes of death in the United States were correlated with two indices of aggression management derived statistically from homicide and suicide rates.] [1966Amer. Sociol. Rev. 31 u2 (advt.) Mental Health for Students... Includes the search for meaning and self-identity; management of anxiety, depression, guilt, loneliness, and anger.] 1975R. W. Novaco Anger Control 8 Once a set of principles for *anger management is developed, the self-instruction format provides for the direct translation of those principles in an educational-therapeutic context whereby the person gains self-control and personal effectiveness. 1984Washington Post (Nexis) 20 Dec. (Virginia Weekly section) 15 An anger-management group for men who have emotionally or physically abused their spouses will be offered by the Alexandria Office on Women. 1995D. Wales & K. Howells in C. Hollin Contemp. Psychol. xii. 245 Successful anger management first involves assisting the client to recognize and identify the stressors which precede anger, and then to recognize the state of anger itself and what is occurring in their body.
▪ II. anger, v.|ˈæŋgə(r)|
Also 3 anngre, 4 angrye, 4–6 -re, 5 -ar, -ur.
[a. ON. angr-a to grieve, vex, f. angr: see anger n.]
†1. To distress, trouble, vex, hurt, wound. Obs.
c1200Ormin 432 Nan þing..Þatt mihhte ohht anngrenn oþre. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 799 [The ald man] is ofte angerd, and ay pleynand. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiv. 244 Þough auarice wolde angre [1393 angrye] þe pore. c1400Rom. Rose 3526 Is it youre ese Hym for to angre or disese? c1440Gesta Rom. i. lii. 183 To be turmentide, angride, and bete for oure defavtis.
2. Hence, through the idea of irritate: To excite to wrath, make angry, enrage.
a. trans.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 117 Who-so hath more þan I, þat angreth me sore. 1494Fabyan ii. xxxvii. 26 Lyghtly he slewe all men yt hym tened or angred. 1530Palsgr. 431/2, I angre, I chafe or bringe out of pacience. Je courrouce.—Beware howe you anger hym. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iv. 215, I anger her sometimes, and tell her that Paris is the properer man. 1662Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 130 A person free from passion, whom none could anger out of his ordinary temper. 1758Johnson Idler No. 9 ⁋1 You have both pleased and angered me. 1841Miall Nonconf. I. 9 It would be difficult to anger the people just now. 1882Athenæum No. 2831. 121 He angered every body who was affected by the project.
b. impers.
c1400Destr. Troy xi. 4571 Hit angris to abide, Or tary..when tulkes ben redy. c1440Morte Arth. 1662 Me angers at Arthure. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. i. 22 T'would anger him To raise a spirit in his Mistresse circle. c1735Pope Epil. Sat. ii. 150 It anger'd Turenne..To see a footman kick'd that took his pay. 1809Southey Lett. II. 165 It angers me when people..depreciate the Spaniards.
†c. refl. To vex oneself, become angry. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy vi. 2236 Angurs you noht. Ibid. xvi. 7329 He angurt hym full euyll. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 20 Anger you not..of that that he saithe.
d. intr. (refl. pron. omitted.) rare.
c1400Destr. Troy xv. 6911 Vlixes..angrit full sore. 1786Burns Sc. Drink xiii, When neebors anger at a plea.
†3. To irritate or inflame a sore. Obs. or dial.
a1626Bacon (J.) He..maketh the wound bleed inwards, and angereth malign ulcers. c1735Pope Donne Sat. iv. 119 Itch most hurts when anger'd to a sore. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy II. iv. 108 Uncle Toby, perceiving that [it]..angered his wound, left off the study of projectiles. |