adv. Obs. Forms: α. 1 wraðe, 3 wraþe, 5 wrath. β. 3 wroðe, 3–4 wroþe, 5 wrothe, wroth. [OE. wráðe, f. wráð WROTH a.]
1. Wrathfully, angrily, severely; = WROTHLY adv. 1.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Luke xiii. 14. Ondsuarade ða ðæs folces aldormon wraððe [Rushw. wraðe].
a. 1000. Guthlac, 638. Eow se waldend wraðe bisencte.
a. 1225. Owl & Night. (C.), 972. Þu canst ȝolle wroþe & stronge.
c. 1275. in O. E. Misc., 144/109. Þat folk worþ eft wroþe i-spild, þe nule to hire [sc. true love] turne.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 265. Was neuer in þam both [sc. Wales and Scotland] terme set ne stounde, Þat þei [ne] discorded wroth.
c. 1400. Arth. & Merl., 824. Heo … beot hire boþe eouele and wroþ.
c. 1430. Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 2917. The Sowdon wrothe answerd ageyn. Ibid., 9229. The lord he smote than so wrothe That shelde to-rofe.
2. Evilly; badly; ill; = WROTHLY adv. 2.
c. 888. Ælfred, Boeth., i. He þa ʓehat swiðe yfele ʓelæste, & swiðe wraðe ʓeendode mid maneʓum mane.
a. 1000. Ags. Ps. (Thorpe), lvii. 2. Eft ʓe on heortan hoʓedon inwit, worhton wraðe.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 193. Þese þreo þing noteð ech man on two wise, wel, and wroðe.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 1360. Wymmon may pleye vnder cloþe hweþer heo wile wel þe wroþe.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 729. Vor þou art mi doȝter … I loued þe one; þou zelst nou my loue wroþe.
1340. Ayenb., 20. Þet þou hest oft ziþes euele and wroþe y-loked hire festes.
c. 1400. Gamelyn, 73. He clothed him and fedde hym yuel and eke wrothe.
3. Sorrowfully; sadly; = WROTHLY adv. 3.
a. 1250. Owl & Night. (J.), 415. A wintre þu singest wroþe & yomere.
c. 1275. Sinners Beware, 96, in O. E. Misc., 75. Þer-fore heo schule siche And in helle smyche Acoryen hit ful wraþe.
