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# wroth

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

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

angry

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Very angry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wroth/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "wroth" is an old word; we say angry or furious.

### examples

- And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. (Torah GEN.31.36, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wroth/#x1)
- The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wroth/#x2)
- And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. (Torah GEN.4.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wroth/#x3)

### primary record

wroth

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 40 (Torah 17, tales 23, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 4.5 (Torah alone 39.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.93/)
- [And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.94/)
- [And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.975/)
- [And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1275/)
- [And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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