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ˈwrothful, a. Obs. or arch.
[var. of wrathful a., after wroth n. or a.
An app. early example in R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 37 is prob. an error for wrathful or wrethful.]
1. Of persons: Full of wrath; angry; = wrathful a. 1.
c1500Communycacyon (W. de W.) C j, Alas why haue I wrothfull ben? 1535Coverdale Nahum i. 2 A taker of vengeaunce is y⊇ Lorde, and wrothfull. 1546Gasser's Prognost. d ij b, The warrier & wrothful Mars, Lord of this yere. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xi. 34 The knight yet wrothfull for his late disgrace,..him..sore smote. 1810Scott Lady of L. v. vi, Wrothful at such arraignment foul, Dark lower'd the clansman's sable scowl.
b. Prone to wrath.
1535Coverdale 2 Sam. vii. 8 His men..are stronge and of a wrothfull stomack.
2. Proceeding or arising from wrath; characterized by or expressive of anger.
1535Coverdale Ps. lxviii. 24 Let thy wrothfull displeasure take holde of them. 1562Legh Armory 165 b, His irefull hart straight braided out wrothful wordes of wreke and reuenge.
Hence ˈwrothfully adv., ˈwrothfulness.
a1500Hist. K. Boccus & Sydracke (? 1510) P ij, He styreth and quakyth *wrothfully. 1535Coverdale Ps. cxxiii. 3 When they were so wrothfully displeased at vs. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. vii. 16 But..(quoth he halfe wrothfully) Where is the bootie? 1855Thorpe tr. Beowulf 6116 Then was the quarrel wrothfully avenged.
1535Coverdale Ecclus. x. 22 Pryde was not made for man, nether *wrothfulness for mens children. |