[var. of WROTH a., prob. by association with WRATH sb.] Wroth, angry, irate; deeply resentful.
Somewhat rare; but occurring in various passages of the Douay Bible (1609), where earlier versions and the Authorized have wroth.
1535. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., XVIII. xii. 316/2. No creature is … more feruente to take wreche than is the bee whan he is wrathe.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., II. i. 20. Oberon is passing fell and wrath [rhyme hath].
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. viii. 43. Whereat the Prince full wrath, his strong right hand … heaued vp on hie.
1609. Bible (Douay), Gen. xl. 2. Pharao being wrath against them … sent them into the prison.
1629. Milton, Hymn Nativ., xviii. Th’old Dragon under ground … wrath to see his Kingdom fail.
[1847. Madden, Laȝamon, I. 271. When he was wrath with any man.]
1860. Thackeray, Lovel, iv. Lovel, seldom angry, was violently wrath with his brother-in-law.
1862. Bulwer, Strange Story, II. 229. I saw the child … looking towards us, and … she seemed near. I felt wrath with her.
