Middle English Dictionary Entry
wrau adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | wrau adj. Also wrawe, wrowe, wroȝ, (N) wragh, wraȝe, wrogh, (16th cent.) wraowe & (early) wrah. |
| Etymology | ?OE *wrah, *wrag. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. wroth adj.
1.
(a) Contrary, perverse; irritable, fretful;
(b) of a person, God: angered, irate;
(c) of speech: expressing irritation or anger, wrathful, cross;
(d) in surnames and place name.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)76/1732 : Wone is of old man Ȝong womman for to spouse, And þanne be wraw and gelouse.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.677 : Accidie maketh hym heuy, thoghtful, and wrawe [vr. wrowe].
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)99 : Crabbyd, awke, or wrawe: Ceronicus, bilosus, cancerinus.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)533 : Wraw, froward, on-goodly: Perversus, bilosus, protervus, exasperans.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.307 : Ȝif þer were ony vnbuxum child & wraw…þe peple of þe cite…schuldyn slen þat vnbuxum child.
- 1591(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hnt HM 2)51/209 : Sem, sonne, loe, thy mother is wraowe; by God, such another I doe not knowe.
b
- ?c1225 Ancr.(Cleo C.6)304/15 fn. : Ȝemið ow þet nan from ow ne parti wið scandle ne wrah ne mispaiet.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)1675 : Þis iherde Leir king; þar-fore he wes swuþe wrah.
- c1330(c1250) Floris (Auch)740 : Þe Ameral was so wroȝ and wod þat he ne miȝt wiȝdraw his mod.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp.(Manly-Rickert)H.46 : The cook wax wrooth and wraw [vr. wrawe].
- a1400 NVPsalter (Hrl 1770)59.1 : Wragh [Eg: wrogh; Vsp: Þou ert wrath with vs].
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)8/22 : Wisit þat er seke…Sahtil þat ere wraȝe.
- c1425 Glo.Chron.A (Hrl 201)p.24 : Corineus, duk of Cornewaile, wroȝ [Clg: wroþ] y now was.
c
- 1372 ME Verse in Grimestone PB (Adv 18.7.21)p.19 : Malus homo, with enuie, wrau werd, and bacbitingge.
- a1500 PParv.(KC 8)80 : [Hrl 221: Clenchyn a-ȝen] in wraw speche [or chaueryn a-ȝen, for prowde herte: Obgarrio].
d
- (1221) Justice in Eyre R.in Seld.Soc.53548 : Philippus Wraw.
- (1297) Sub.R.Yks.in YASRS 1681 : Wrauclif.
- (1309) Sub.R.Bdf.in Suf.GB 1866 : Nicholao Wrau.