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wráþe

  • adverb
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wráþe, adv.
Wright's OE grammar
§553;
angrily, with or in anger, with indignation
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  • Eów se Waldend wráðe (in his wrath) bisencte,

    • Exon. Th. 142, 3
      • ;
    • Gú. 638.

  • Ondsworade ðæs folches aldor wráðe (wráððe,

      Lind.
    )

    respondens archesynagogus indignans,

      Lk. Skt. Rush. 13, 14.
fiercely, cruelly, greviously, bitterly
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  • Woroldlaga syndan innan ðysan earde wráðe forhwyrfde

    (grievously perverted),

      Wulfst. 268, 5.

  • Him grimme on woruldsǽlþa wind, wráðe bláweþ . . . hine se ymbhoga ðyssa woruld-sǽlþa wráðe drecce,

    • Met. 7, 51-54
      • :
    • 29, 89, 91.

  • Hí wráðe tóweorp

    destrue eos,

    • Ps. Th. 58, iij 61, 4
      • :
    • 72, 14, 15.

  • Ða wiðerwearde mé wráðe hycgeaþ

    cogilaverunt adversum me,

    • 139, 8
      • :
    • Cd. Th. 284, 4
      • ;
    • Sat. 316.

  • Hine monige on wráðe winnaþ,

    • 138, 11
      • ;
    • Gen. 2290.

  • Wé synd wráðe geswæncte,

    • Homl. Ski. i. 4, 156
      • :
    • Exon. Th. 443, 19
      • ;
    • Kl. 32.

  • Wráþe geworhtra wíta,

      252, 32; Jul. 172.

  • Ðú ðé sylfne swýbe wráðe bepǽcst

    you deceive yourself most grievously.

      Homl. Skt. i. 12, 99.

  • Ðæs wráðe ongeald, hearde mid híwum, hægstealdra wyn,

    • Cd. Th. 111, 26
      • ;
    • Gen. 1861.
evilly, perversely, wickedly
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  • Hé ða gehát swíðe yfele gelǽste, and swíðe wráðe geendode mid manegum máne,

    • Bt. I
      • ;
    • Fox 2, 10.

  • Gé on heortan hogedon inwit, worhton wráðe

    in corde iniquitates operamini,

      Ps. Th. 57, 2.

  • Ys hyra múðes scyld mánworda feala, ða hí mid welerum wráðe ásprǽcan

    delicta oris eorum sermo labiorum ipsorum,

    • 58, 12
      • :
    • Elen. Kmbl. 587
      • ;
    • El. 294.
with an intensive force to qualify an unfavourable idea
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  • Syndon gewordene heora willan wráde besmitene

    (horribly defiled),

      Ps. Th. 52, l.

  • Ðæt bid forwisnad wráde sóna

    (terribly soon),

      128, 4.
Etymology
[
On two wise, wel and wroðe (ill),
    O. E. Homl. ii. 193, 28.
In helle smyche acoryen hit ful wraþe (very grievously),
    Misc. 75, 96.
Þunne ischrud and ifed wroþe thinly clad and badly fed,
    O. and N. 1529.
Ich habbe more þan þi sostren boþe yloued þe one, and þon ȝeldest now my loue wroþe
    R. Glouc. 31, 10.
Þou hest enele and wroþe yloked hire festes,
    Ayenb. 20, 23.
]
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “wráþe.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/36605.

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