awrath
See also: Awrath
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English ġewrāþian; equivalent to the a- + wrath.
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Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ə.rŏthʹ, IPA(key): /əˈɹɒθ/
Verb edit
awrath (third-person singular simple present awraths, present participle awrathing, simple past and past participle awrathed)
- (obsolete, transitive and reflexive) Anger; enrage.
- 1916, Casper Salathiel Yost, Pearl Lenore Pollard Curran, Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery, H. Holt and Company, page 157:
- Telka arounded and awrathed be like unto a thunder-storm, […]
References edit
- “†aˈwrath, awroth, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ə.rŏthʹ, IPA(key): /əˈɹɒθ/
Adjective edit
awrath
- (predicative) Wrathful; incensed; enraged; irate.
- 1862, Duffy’s Hibernian magazine, volume 2, page 161, “The Flight of the Earls”, lines 1–4
- ‛Tis an old story: Might awrath with right:
A nation conquered and her shrines o’erthrown;
Her chieftains flying seaward in the night,
And not a trumpet of departure blown.
- ‛Tis an old story: Might awrath with right:
- 1908, Miguel Zamacoïs, translated by John Nathan Raphael, The Jesters: A Simple Story in Four Acts of Verse, Brentano’s, page 22:
- Nay, never sneer! Enough! I am awrath today! Give me the gold you owe, or by the saints —
- a. 1931, Elsdon Best, Māori Religion and Mythology: Being an Account of the Cosmogony, Anthropogeny, Religious Beliefs and Rites, Magic and Folk Lore of the Māori Folk of New Zealand, part 2, page 295 (Te Papa Press; →ISBN, 9781877385063)
- These are felt in the upper world, where Hine-puia, who personifies volcanoes, is awrath, and who sweeps before her Hine-uku […]
- 1976, “Collected Early poems of Ezra Pound”, in Malrin, →ISBN, page 34:
- But one left me awroth and went in unto thy table. I tarried, till his anger was blown out.
- 1862, Duffy’s Hibernian magazine, volume 2, page 161, “The Flight of the Earls”, lines 1–4
Noun edit
awrath (uncountable)
- wrath
- 2008, Randal Chase, Making Precious Things Plain: A Book of Mormon Study Guide, Cedar Fort, →ISBN, page 128, →ISBN:
- Moroni expected no positive response, saying, “Ye have once rejected these things, and have fought against the people of the Lord, even so I may expect you will do it again. And now behold, we are prepared to receive you; yea, and except you withdraw your purposes, behold, ye will pull down the awrath of that God whom you have rejected upon you, even to your utter destruction” (v. 8–9).
Etymology 3 edit
From the Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra, “imperfection”, “nakedness”), from عَوِرَ (ʕawira, “to lose an eye”).
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
awrath (uncountable)
- (Islam) Those parts of one’s body which must be covered for decency, the identification of which various according to sect and circumstance (for example, a woman covers different parts around men than around women).
