a. [f. WROTH a. + -Y1. Cf. MDu. wrêdich (Du. wreedig) cruel.] Wrathful, angry.
In 19th c., revived under the influence of WRATHY a.
1422. Yonge, trans. Secreta Secret., 157. Mowrnynge and wrothi thow shalte reme. Ibid., 229. Tho men … bene wrothy and hugely angry.
14[?]. Wheatley MS. (1921), 28. In my flesche ther is no hele In presence of thi worthi [? read wrothi] face [L. a facie ire tue].
1839. Lever, H. Lorrequer, v. A more wrothy gentleman … it having rarely been my evil fortune to forgather with.
1869. Trollope, Vicar Bullhampton, xvii. Gilmore … was waxing wrothy.
1902. Rodkinson, Talmud, VIII. p. xiii. Ezra was wrothy that the Torah should be given through him, if Moses had not preceded him.
Hence Wrothily adv.; Wrothiness.
1422. Yonge, trans. Secreta Secret., 227. A grete fleshy shorte neke tokenyth wrothynesse like as a bull is.
1898. N. Munro, John Splendid, xxv. 257. [He] would ruffle up wrothily with blame for my harping on that incident.
