awrath

awrath

See also: Awrath

English

Etymology 1

From the Old English ġewrāþian; equivalent to the English a- +‎ wrath.

Alternative forms

• awroth

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ə.rŏthʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈɹɒθ/

Verb

awrath (third-person singular simple present awraths, present participle awrathing, simple past and past participle awrathed)

1. (obsolete, transitive and reflexive) Anger; enrage.
   • 1916, Casper Salathiel Yost and Pearl Lenore Pollard Curran, Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery, H. Holt and Company, page 157:

     Telka arounded and awrathed be like unto a thunder-storm, […]

References

• “†aˈwrath, awroth, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ə.rŏthʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈɹɒθ/

Adjective

awrath

1. Wrathful; incensed; enraged; irate.
   • 1862, Duffy’s Hibernian magazine, volume 2, page 161, “The Flight of the Earls”, lines 1–4

     ‛Tis an old story: Might awrath with right:
     A nation conquered and her shrines o’erthrown;
     Her chieftains flying seaward in the night,
     And not a trumpet of departure blown.

   • 1908, Miguel Zamacoïs (author) and John Nathan Raphael (translator), The Jesters: A Simple Story in Four Acts of Verse, page 22 (Brentano’s)

     Nay, never sneer! Enough! I am awrath today! Give me the gold you owe, or by the saints —

   • ante 1931, Elsdon Best, Māori Religion and Mythology: Being an Account of the Cosmogony, Anthropogeny, Religious Beliefs and Rites, Magic and Folk Lore of the Māori Folk of New Zealand, part 2, page 295 (Te Papa Press; →ISBN, 9781877385063)

     These are felt in the upper world, where Hine-puia, who personifies volcanoes, is awrath, and who sweeps before her Hine-uku […]

   • 1976, Collected Early poems of Ezra Pound, page 34 →ISBN, Malrin

     But one left me awroth and went in unto thy table. I tarried, till his anger was blown out.

   • 2006, Hugh Cook, The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, page 491 (Lulu.com; →ISBN

     After awhile, Guest Gulkan no longer knew whether he was alive or dead, awake or awrath in nightmare.

Noun

awrath (uncountable)

1. wrath
   • 2008, Randal Chase, Making Precious Things Plain: A Book of Mormon Study Guide, page 128 (Cedar Fort; →ISBN, 9781599551302)

     Moroni expected no positive response, saying, “Ye have once rejected these things, and have fought against the people of the Lord, even so I may expect you will do it again. And now behold, we are prepared to receive you; yea, and except you withdraw your purposes, behold, ye will pull down the awrath of that God whom you have rejected upon you, even to your utter destruction” (v. 8–9).

Etymology 3

From the Arabic عَوْرَة‎ (ʿawra, “imperfection”, “nakedness”), from عَوِرَ‎ (ʿawira, “to lose an eye”).

Alternative forms

• aurat
• awrah

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ.ɹæt/

Noun

awrath (uncountable)

1. (Islam) Those parts of one’s body which must be covered for decency, the identification of which various according to sect and circumstance (for example, a woman covers different parts around men than around women).

See also

• awrah on Wikipedia.Wikipedia