awrath

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English

Etymology 1

From Old English ġewrāþian; equivalent to the a- +‎ wrath.

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awrath (third-person singular simple present awraths, present participle awrathing, simple past and past participle awrathed)

  1. (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, []
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Etymology 2

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awrath

  1. (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.
    • 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.
    • 2006, Hugh Cook, The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 491:
      After awhile, Guest Gulkan no longer knew whether he was alive or dead, awake or awrath in nightmare.

Noun

awrath (uncountable)

  1. 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

From the Arabic عَوْرَة (ʕawra, imperfection”, “nakedness), from عَوِرَ (ʕawira, to lose an eye).

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awrath (uncountable)

  1. (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).
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