All 13 Uses of
wrath
in
Beowulf - (translated by: Gummere)
- Unhallowed wight, grim and greedy, he grasped betimes, wrathful, reckless, from resting-places, thirty of the thanes, and thence he rushed fain of his fell spoil, faring homeward, laden with slaughter, his lair to seek.†
- Now the wrath of the sea-fish rose apace; yet me 'gainst the monsters my mailed coat, hard and hand-linked, help afforded, — battle-sark braided my breast to ward, garnished with gold.†
- 'twas widely known that against God's will the ghostly ravager him{10a}could not hurl to haunts of darkness; wakeful, ready, with warrior's wrath, bold he bided the battle's issue.†
- XI THEN from the moorland, by misty crags, with God's wrath laden, Grendel came.†
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- Flung then the fierce one, filled with wrath, his deadly foe, that she fell to ground.†
- Seized then its chain-hilt the Scyldings' chieftain, bold and battle-grim, brandished the sword, reckless of life, and so wrathfully smote that it gripped her neck and grasped her hard, her bone-rings breaking: the blade pierced through that fated-one's flesh: to floor she sank.†
- Well paid for that the wrathful prince!†
- He slew, wrath-swollen, his shoulder-comrades, companions at board!†
- No queenly way for woman to practise, though peerless she, that the weaver-of-peace{27c}from warrior dear by wrath and lying his life should reave!†
- {29e}In hand he took a golden goblet, nor gave he it back, stole with it away, while the watcher slept, by thievish wiles: for the warden's wrath prince and people must pay betimes!†
- Powerful this plague-of-the-people thus held the house of the hoard in earth three hundred winters; till One aroused wrath in his breast, to the ruler bearing that costly cup, and the king implored for bond of peace.†
- The guardian waited ill-enduring till evening came; boiling with wrath was the barrow's keeper, and fain with flame the foe to pay for the dear cup's loss.†
- From the Ruler-of-Man no wrath shall seize me, when life from my frame must flee away, for killing of kinsmen!†
Definition:
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(wrath) extreme anger or angry punishment