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[ UK /ɹˈæθ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹæθ/ ]
NOUN
  1. belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
  2. intense anger (usually on an epic scale)

How To Use wrath In A Sentence

  • So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: ‘Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
  • He speaks terror, in Sennacherib's invasion, to the hypocrites, who were the people of God's wrath, v. 6. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • She will smite the empires with her wrath, and in her sorrow wash them away!
  • Douglas, I will give my people and all the world proof that I am still God's righteous and avenging vice-gerent on earth, and that no consideration can restrain my wrath, no after-thought stay my arm, whenever it is ready to fall and smite the head of the guilty. Henry VIII and His Court
  • -- and he says this, too, with a kind of wrathful glee. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
  • He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy.
  • He was usually slow to anger but once his wrath was roused he made a dangerous enemy.
  • To finish the portrait, the bearing of the gracious Duncan was brief, bluff, and consequential, and the upward turn of his short copper-coloured nose indicated that he was somewhat addicted to wrath and usquebaugh. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • He was scared of incurring his father's wrath .
  • The colliquation of his spirits: My heart is like wax, melted to receive the impressions of God's wrath against the sins he undertook to satisfy for, melting away like the vitals of a dying man; and, as this satisfied for the hardness of our hearts, so the consideration of it should help to soften them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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