Noun: grame
Sample Sentences
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to save the from the Blame
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of all my greffe & grame [a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “And wylt thow leve me thus” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 17 recto, lines 3 and 4]
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Age doth me mvche grame. [1548, Smyth & Dame, section 218:]
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God's strength shall be my trust, / Fall it to good or grame / 'Tis in his name. [1872, Rossetti, Staff & Scrip, Poems (ed. 6), 49]
Nouns inflected like grame
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gram (“angry”), Dutch gram (“wrath”), Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adjective), grim. See: Middle English Nouns '
grame', Old English Nouns '
grama', Dutch Nouns '
gram', German Nouns '
Gram', Danish Nouns '
gram', Icelandic Nouns '
gramir'.
Verbs referencing "grame"
German Nouns
Gram.