wroth

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

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

angry

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Very angry. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "wroth" is an old word; we say angry or furious.

examples

• And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. (Torah GEN.31.36, JPS 1917) tree →
• The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. (Torah GEN.4.5, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

wroth

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 40 (Torah 17, tales 23, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 4.5 (Torah alone 39.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
• And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
• And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban.
• And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
• And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying:

Trees and pragmatics

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