wrath

«wrath» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: anger; rage — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

anger; rage

part of speech

noun; adjective (in "the Tsar was very wrath")

meaning for a pupil

Very great anger; (as adjective) very angry. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "wrath" is formal and old-fashioned; the adjective use in the Cossack sentence is old and no longer used.

examples

• Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people. (Torah EXO.32.12, JPS 1917) tree →
• And the Tsar was very wrath. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →
• My wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. (Torah EXO.22.24, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

wrath

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 89 (Torah 13, tales 76, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 1; ratio 3.4 (Torah alone 10.1); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people.
• And there came great wrath upon Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
• That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
• Remember how I stood before Thee to speak good for them, to turn away Thy wrath from them.
• The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark; I will pour out My wrath upon them like water.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wrath» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.