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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WRATH, n. [L.]
1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; as the wrath of Achilles.
When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased--ESther 2.
O Lord--in wrath remember mercy. Habukkuk 3.
2. The effects of anger. Proverbs 27.
3. The just punishment of an offense or crime. Romans 8.
Gods wrath, in Scripture, is his holy and just indignation against sin. Romans 1.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: intense anger (usually on an epic scale)
2: belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: wrath, anger, ire, ira]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English wr?ththo, from wr?th wroth — more at wroth Date: before 12th century 1. strong vengeful anger or indignation 2. retributory punishment for an offense or a crime ; divine chastisement Synonyms: see anger II. adjective Etymology: alteration of wroth Date: 1535 archaic wrathful

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. literary extreme anger. Etymology: OE wræththu f. wrath WROTH

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wrath Wrath (?; 277), n. [OE. wrathe, wra[thorn][thorn]e, wrethe, wr[ae][eth][eth]e, AS. wr[=ae][eth][eth]o, fr. wr[=a][eth] wroth; akin to Icel. rei[eth]i wrath. See Wroth, a.] 1. Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire. Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed. --Spenser. When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased. --Esther ii. 1. Now smoking and frothing Its tumult and wrath in. --Southey. 2. The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime. ``A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.'' --Rom. xiii. 4. Syn: Anger; fury; rage; ire; vengeance; indignation; resentment; passion. See Anger.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wrath Wrath, a. See Wroth. [Obs.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wrath Wrath, v. t. To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally. [Obs.] ``I will not wrathen him.'' --Chaucer. If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun. --Piers Plowman.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Wrath means the same as anger. (LITERARY) He incurred the wrath of the authorities in speaking out against government injustices. N-UNCOUNT: oft with poss

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Anger, ire, indignation, exasperation, irritation, rage, fury, choler, passion, heat, resentment, offence.

Moby Thesaurus

a transient madness, acedia, acerbity, acrimony, anger, angriness, asperity, avarice, avaritia, deadly sin, enragement, envy, fury, gluttony, grapes of wrath, greed, gula, heat, indignation, infuriation, invidia, ira, irateness, ire, lust, luxuria, mad, offense, pride, rage, resentment, saeva indignatio, sloth, soreness, superbia, vials of wrath, wrathfulness