ppl. a. [f. WRONG v. + -ED1.]
1. Of persons, etc.: Wrongfully, unfairly or unjustly treated; affected harmfully or prejudicially; injured.
a. 1547. Surrey, Æneid, IV. 462. The wronged hed by me of my deare sonne, Whom I defraud of the Hisperian crown.
1561. Norton & Sackv., Gorboduc, I. ii. The smaller compasse that the realme doth holde,… The nearer [is] justice to the wronged poore.
1593. Shaks., Rich. III., V. iii. 121. The wronged Soules Of butcher’d Princes.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 178. A wronged womans reuenge.
1681. Otway, Soldier’s Fort., V. (1735), 111. Take this wrong’d Lady home and use her handsomely.
1709. Atterbury, Serm. (1726), II. 221. He resolves to make Personal Restitution, where the Wrong can be discover’d and the wrong’d Person reach’d.
1806. Surr, Winter in Lond., II. 104. Some wronged female orphan of this old Abbey.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, xxiii. Two dragon sentries … on duty over the wronged innocence imprisoned.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, viii. The knight … was charged with favour towards the wronged Britannicus.
absol. 1582. Mulcaster, Elementarie (1925), 264. The name of Christians, which verie title enioyneth a serch to avoyd contention, euen by submission of the wronged.
1691. Maydman, Nav. Spec., 187. That the strong Man be … made to restore the Wronged to his Right.
1864. [see WRONGER].
1891. J. K. Stephen, Quo Musa Tendis? 35. When the wronger falls and the wronged wins bays.
2. Of things: Subjected to detriment, prejudice or unfavorable bias.
1632. J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Eromena, 25. The vengeance of my wronged honour.
1644. Milton, Divorce (ed. 2), 4. He therefore … shall restore the much wrong’d and over-sorrow’d state of matrimony.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., II. lxi. She sees defamed Glory, wronged Right.
1849. Lytton, K. Arthur, V. viii. On thy wronged grave one hand appeasing lays The humble flower.
1875. Browning, Aristoph. Apol., 125. Strain a point the other way, And handsomely exaggerate wronged truth!
† b. Perverted. Obs. rare–1.
1619. A. Newman, Pleas. Vis., C 3 b. Besides, preferments would attend On me that I might be the end, Whereat Mens wronged thoughts might aime.
3. Diseased; having the normal functions disordered.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg. Wks., XV. ii. 562. Great paine in the interim torments the patient by reason of the wronged periostium.
Mod. Sc. A wranged stomach.
