wrath
part of speech
noun (wrath, uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) (formal, old-fashioned) Very great anger. tree →
2) (Bible, church) The wrath of God is God's anger at evil and sin, described in many Bible stories. tree →
3) (humorous) Somebody's anger when you have done something wrong: «Mum's wrath». tree →
4) Wrath can also mean very angry, used as an adjective. tree →
sense in the lessons
In Bible lessons and old stories wrath is used for kings, gods and storms. In ethics wrath is one of the seven deadly sins (also called anger). In everyday speech children use it jokingly: «I'll face my teacher's wrath.» Phrases: «the wrath of God», «face someone's wrath», «incur the wrath of», «The Grapes of Wrath».
examples
- The king's wrath was terrible. tree →
- The prophets warned of God's wrath against injustice. tree →
- We fled before we could face the wrath of the farmer. tree →
- Wrath is one of the seven deadly sins. tree →
- I'll face Mum's wrath if I'm late again! tree →
- «Do not let the sun go down on your wrath.» tree →
- And the Tsar was very wrath. tree →
note
Uncountable. Pronounced «roth» (UK) or «rath» (US). Adjective: wrathful. Old or formal; in normal speech say «anger» or «fury». Not the same as «wreath» (a ring of flowers).
In the corpora
- Proverbs 15:1 says «A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger».
- 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.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wrath» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.