wrath – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of wrath

Adjective: wrath

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore wrath
Superlativemost wrath

Sample Sentences

  • Take heede the Queene come not vvithin his ſight,
  • For Oberon is paſſing fell and vvrath:
  • Becauſe that ſhe, as her attendant, hath
  • A louely boy ſtollen, from an Indian king:
  • She neuer had ſo ſvveete a changeling. [c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B3, recto:]
  • VVhereat the Prince full vvrath, his ſtrong right hand
  • In full auengement heaued vp on hie,
  • And ſtroke the Pagan vvith his ſteely brand
  • So ſore, that to his ſaddle bovv thereby
  • He bovved lovv, and ſo a vvhile did lie: […] [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 43, page 120:]
  • And Pharao being a vvrath againſt them (for the one vvas chiefe of the cupbearers, the other chiefe baker) he ſent them into the priſon of the captaine of the ſouldiers, in the vvhich Ioſeph alſo vvas priſoner. [1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Genesis 40:2–3, pages 122–123:]
  • Th' old Dragon underground
  • In ſtraiter limits bound,
  • Not half ſo far caſts his uſurped ſvvay,
  • And vvrath to ſee his Kingdom fail,
  • Svvindges the ſcaly Horrour of his foulded tail. [1629, John Milton, “On the Morning of Christs Nativity”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 9:]
  • Lovel, seldom angry, was violently wrath with his brother-in-law; and, almost always polite, was at breakfast scarcely civil to Lady Baker. [1860 January–June, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “A Black Sheep”, in Lovel the Widower, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1861, →OCLC, page 165:]
  • I felt wrath with her. My heart so cherished my harmless, defenceless Lilian, that I was jealous of the praise taken from her to be bestowed on another. [1861 September 28 – 1862 March 8, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XXXI, in A Strange Story. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 229:]

Etymology

A variant of wroth, probably influenced by wrath (noun) (see etymology 1).

Verbs referencing "wrath"

Dutch Adjectives wreed.