wrath

Etymology

From Middle English wraththe, wreththe, from Old English wrǣþþu (“wrath, fury”), from Proto-West Germanic *wraiþiþu (“wrath, fury”), equivalent to wroth + -th. Compare Dutch wreedte (“cruelty”), Danish vrede (“anger”), Swedish vrede (“wrath, anger, ire”), Icelandic reiði (“anger”). More at wroth.

noun

1. (formal or old-fashioned) Great anger.
   Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.
   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? 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
2. (rare) Punishment.

adj

1. Wrathful; wroth; very angry.

verb

1. (obsolete, Early Modern) To anger; to enrage.
   […] butte remembre howe by thy cursed synnes thou haste offended and wrathed thy lorde god. 1506, Jacobus van Gruitrode, anonymous translator, The mirroure of golde for the synfull soule, folio 12ᵛ
   Of ire yͤ whiche is agayne god. […] A man wratheth hym ayenst god for many thynges, pryncypally for the flagellacions, aduersytees, fortunes, sykenesses, & mortalytees, losses, punycyons, famyne, warre & yll tyme. 1510, Ihesus. The floure of the commaundements of god[…], folio 60ʳ
   And than the bysshop sayd vnto the clerke, thou hast wrathed me, but yf thou wylte be sory thou shalte haue my loue as thou haddest before, & I shall gyue the the benefyce yͭ I haue promysed to gyue the, sholde not he be anone sory of that I byleue that yes. 1520, Pierre de Luxembourg (attributed), anonymous translator, The boke entytuled the next way to heuen[…], folio 4ʳ