All 16 Uses
wrought
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The Prince and The Pauper
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- By-and-by Tom's reading and dreaming about princely life wrought such a strong effect upon him that he began to ACT the prince, unconsciously.
Chpt 2 *wrought = worked
- His father wrought us evil, he destroyed us—and is gone down into the eternal fires!
Chpt 20 *wrought = brought (caused)
- that he shall cease to speak to any of that lowly birth and life his malady hath conjured out of the unwholesome imaginings of o'er-wrought fancy;†
Chpt 6
- Thy foolish reading hath wrought its woeful work at last, and ta'en thy wit away.†
Chpt 10
- Through wit and courage I won to the free air at last, and fled hither straight; and am but just arrived, right poor in purse and raiment, and poorer still in knowledge of what these dull seven years have wrought at Hendon Hall, its people and belongings.†
Chpt 12
- Verily, this is no common mind; else, crazed or sane, it could not weave so straight and gaudy a tale as this out of the airy nothings wherewith it hath wrought this curious romaunt.†
Chpt 12
- His Majesty walked apart, musing, and Hendon dropped into a chair at table, observing to himself, "'Twas a brave thought, and hath wrought me a mighty deliverance; my legs are grievously wearied.†
Chpt 12
- —holding the garment up and viewing it admiringly—"they have a grandeur and a majesty that do cause these small stingy ones of the tailor-man to look mightily paltry and plebeian— "'She loved her husband dearilee, But another man he loved she,—' "Marry, 'tis done—a goodly piece of work, too, and wrought with expedition.†
Chpt 13
- Then he blushed scarlet, and a sort of apology sprung to his lips; but observing that his order had wrought no sort of surprise in the Earl or the waiting page, he suppressed the words he was about to utter.†
Chpt 15
- But Tom was hardly conscious of the presence of these people, so wrought up was he and so intensely absorbed in that other and more interesting matter.†
Chpt 15
- Presently he asked— "How wrought they to bring the storm?"†
Chpt 15
- And so he wrought, and still wrought—mumbling, chuckling a low rasping chuckle at times—and at times breaking again into words— "It was his father that did it all.†
Chpt 20
- And so he wrought, and still wrought—mumbling, chuckling a low rasping chuckle at times—and at times breaking again into words— "It was his father that did it all.†
Chpt 20
- The tears came, then, and trickled, one after the other, down his face; but this piteous sight wrought no softening effect upon the savage old man.†
Chpt 21
- This quaint and gaudy spectacle so wrought upon the rejoicing people, that their acclamations utterly smothered the small voice of the child whose business it was to explain the thing in eulogistic rhymes.†
Chpt 31
- More than once, when some great dignitary, some gilded vassal of the crown, made argument against his leniency, and urged that some law which he was bent upon amending was gentle enough for its purpose, and wrought no suffering or oppression which any one need mightily mind, the young King turned the mournful eloquence of his great compassionate eyes upon him and answered— "What dost THOU know of suffering and oppression?†
Chpt Cncl.
Definitions:
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(1)
(wrought as in: wrought iron) worked -- as when iron is shaped to fit by bending or beating
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(2)
(wrought as in: the damage she has wrought) caused to happen or occurred as a consequenceThis is most typically seen in classic literature. Less commonly, the present tense, wreak, is also seen.
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(3)
(wrought as in: her mind was wrought with anxiety) excessively nervous or agitated
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)