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# wrath

«wrath» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **anger; rage** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

anger; rage

### part of speech

noun; adjective (in "the Tsar was very wrath")

### meaning for a pupil

Very great anger; (as adjective) very angry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wrath/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "wrath" is formal and old-fashioned; the adjective use in the Cossack sentence is old and no longer used.

### examples

- Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people. (Torah EXO.32.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wrath/#x1)
- And the Tsar was very wrath. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wrath/#x2)
- My wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. (Torah EXO.22.24, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wrath/#x3)

### primary record

wrath

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 89 (Torah 13, tales 76, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 1; ratio 3.4 (Torah alone 10.1); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.957/)
- [And there came great wrath upon Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.77/)
- [That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.304/)
- [Remember how I stood before Thee to speak good for them, to turn away Thy wrath from them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.529/)
- [The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark; I will pour out My wrath upon them like water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.68/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wrath» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wrath/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.