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WROTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wroth mean?
• WROTH (adjective)
The adjective WROTH has 1 sense:
1. vehemently incensed and condemnatory
Familiarity information: WROTH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Vehemently incensed and condemnatory
Synonyms:
Context example:
but wroth as he was, a short struggle ended in reconciliation
Similar:
angry (feeling or showing anger)
Context examples
Why, my father is a bitter man when he is wroth, but hath never called me such a name as that.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You will find us at Dax, I doubt not, unless the prince throw me into prison, for he is very wroth against me.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By my hilt! our little lord is wroth because we have come peacefully through the passes, but I will warrant him that we have fighting enow ere we turn our faces northward again.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then, with a sunken head and a heavy heart, he plodded wearily down the other path, wroth with himself for the rude and uncouth tongue which had given offence where so little was intended.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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