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ˈwrathfulness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The state, condition, or quality of being wrathful; wrath, ire.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. i. 28 Wrathefulnesse forsothe of wilfulnesse..is his turnyng vp so doun. 1546Wycklyffes Wycket (1828) 3 He shalbe raysed tyll the wrathfulness before determyned is perfectilye made. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xxxii. 189 There is no wrathfulnesse in God. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. xlii. i, What iron band, or what sharp hard mouth'd bit..Can bridle wrathfulness and conquer it? 1683J. Pordage Mystic Div. 118 To the Fire-essence do belong, Fierceness, Fieriness, Wrathfulness. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Irefulness, wrathfulness. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede l, Adam..was afraid she had thought him serious about his wrathfulness. |