wreakful

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Etymology

From Middle English wrakeful, equivalent to wreak +‎ -ful.

Adjective

wreakful (comparative more wreakful, superlative most wreakful)

  1. (poetic or obsolete) Vengeful; angry, furious.
    Synonyms: furious, vindictive; see also Thesaurus:angry, Thesaurus:vengeful
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Ne any liv'd on ground that durst withstand / His dreadfull heast, much lesse him match in fight, / Or bide the horror of his wreakfull hand […].
    • 1802, The Spirit of Anti-Jacobinism:
      He sinks, to every wreakful fiend a prey; / His bosom shut to each affection kind;
    • 1842, Thomas Miller, Rural Sketches:
      Unpropp'd, unsuccoured by stake or tree, / From wreakful storms' impetuous tyranny, [...]

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