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   Wrath , n. [OE. wrathe, wraþþe, wrethe, wræððe, AS. wrǣððo, fr. wrāð wroth; akin to Icel. reiði wrath.  See Wroth, a.]
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   Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.
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   Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed.
   Spenser.
   
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   When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased.
   Esther ii. 1.
   
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   Now smoking and frothing
   Its tumult and wrath in.
   Southey.
   
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   The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.  “A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.”  
   Rom. xiii. 4.
   
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   Syn. -- Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion.  See Anger.
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   Wrath, a. See Wroth.  [Obs.]
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   Wrath, v. t. To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.  [Obs.]  “I will not wrathen him.”  
   Chaucer.
   
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   If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun.
   Piers Plowman.
   
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