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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IRE, n. [L. ira, wrath. See Eng. Wrath.] Anger; wrath; keen resentment; a word chiefly used in poetry.
Thus will persist, relentless in his ire.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance [syn: anger, choler, ire]
2: belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: wrath, anger, ire, ira]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin ira; perhaps akin to Greek oistros gadfly, frenzy Date: 14th century intense and usually openly displayed anger Synonyms: see anger • ire transitive verb • ireful adjective

Merriam Webster's

abbreviation Ireland

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. literary anger. Derivatives: ireful adj. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L ira

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ire Ire, n. [F., fr. L. ira.] Anger; wrath. [Poet.] Syn: Anger; passion; rage; fury. See Anger.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Ire is anger. (FORMAL) Their ire was directed mainly at the government. = wrath, fury

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. (Poetical.) Wrath, anger, rage, fury, choler, indignation, resentment, passion, exasperation.

Moby Thesaurus

a transient madness, anger, angriness, enrage, enragement, fury, grapes of wrath, heat, incense, indignation, infuriate, infuriation, irateness, mad, madden, rage, saeva indignatio, soreness, steam up, umbrage, vials of wrath, wrath, wrathfulness