English

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Etymology

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From anger +‎ -ness.

Noun

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angerness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Affliction or trouble.
    • circa 1350: Anonymous, Hymn to Virgil; quoted in:
    • 1860, George Gilfillan, Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets[1]:
      Hail, innocent of angerness / Our takel, our tol, that we on trow; []

References

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  • The Oxford English Dictionary [Second Edition] (1989)