wrathとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹɒθ/, /ɹæθ/
• 韻: -ɒθ, -æθ
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹæːθ/, /ɹæθ/
• 韻: -æθ
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɹɛθ/, /ɹɔθ/

名詞

wrath (usually uncountable, 複数形 wraths)

1. Great anger.

   Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn Gate next Gray's Inn Lane, OCLC 228732415, book I, page 17:

     For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?

2. (まれに) Punishment.
   • Bible, Romans xiii. 4

     A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

使用する際の注意点

• The pronunciation with the vowel /æ/ is regarded as incorrect by many British English speakers.

同意語

• (great anger): fury, ire

派生語

• grapes of wrath
• wrathful

形容詞

wrath (comparative more wrath, superlative most wrath)

1. (まれに) Wrathful; very angry.

動詞

wrath (三人称単数 現在形 wraths, 現在分詞 wrathing, 過去形および過去分詞形 wrathed)

1. (obsolete) To anger; to enrage.
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アナグラム

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