also 4–5 angyr, -gir, 4–6 angre, 5 angar. [a. ON. angr trouble, affliction, f. root ang strait, straitened, troubled: see ANGE.]
† 1. That which pains or afflicts, or the passive feeling which it produces; trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow. Obs.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 972. Ȝhe held hire hard in ðralles wune, And dede hire sorȝe and anger mune.
1340. Hampole, Pr. Consc., 3517. Na man may to heven ga, Bot-if he thole here anger and wa.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, III. 321. Thir angrys may I na mar drey.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XXII. 291. To suffren al þat god sente · syknesses and angres.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., 243. Deliuer me from this anger þat I dwelle in.
1475. Caxton, Jason, 76 b. For the deth of whiche childe the anger and sorow was moche the more.
2. The active feeling provoked against the agent; passion, rage; wrath, ire, hot displeasure.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B. 572. Þe anger of his ire þat arȝed monye.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Frankl. T., 825. Neuere eft ne was ther Angre [v.r. angyr, -er] hem bitwene.
1393. Gower, Conf., I. 282. Ne couth I after that be wroth, But all min anger overgoth.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 185/4. In an angre [he] toke his swerde and smote of the heed of thys holy man.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Paraphr. Eph. iv. 26 (R.). Restrayn your angre, whan it would barst out.
1552. Latimer, Serm. Lord’s Prayer, iv. II. 57. A man slain openly of another man in an anger.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., III. ii. 92. May be he heares the King Does whet his Anger to him.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. i. II. Anger, which is a desire of revenge; Hatred, which is inveterate anger.
1657. J. Smith, Myst. Rhet., 168. Anger is a vehement heat of the minde, which brings palenesse to the countenance, burning to the eyes, and trembling to the parts of the body.
1690. Locke, Hum. Underst., II. xx. (1695), 122. Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the Mind upon the receit of any Injury, with a present purpose of Revenge.
1754. Chatham, Lett. Nephew, v. 39. Anger, that dæmon, that destroyer of our peace.
1875. H. E. Manning, Mission H. Ghost, xiv. 393. Anger has its proper use. Anger is the executive power of justice.
3. Physical affliction or pain; inflammatory state of any part of the body. (Still dial.)
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XIII. 335. I cacche … an ague in suche an angre, and some tyme a feure.
a. 1500. MS. Lincoln, A i. 17. 305 (Halliw.). Anoynte hym fyrste with popilione if he hafe anger in his lyver.
1659. Hammond, On Ps. lviii. 9. Rawness and anger (in that dialect, wherein we call a sore angry).
1677. Temple, Cure of Gout, Wks. 1720, I. 140 (J.). The Joint of the great Toe, and where the greatest Anger and Soreness still continued.
4. Comb. (mostly poet.) a. attrib., as anger-glow; b. objective, as anger-kindling; c. instrumental, as anger-boiling, -coddled, -lined, -swollen.
1851. H. Melville, Whale, xxxvi. 181. My heat has melted thee to anger-glow.
1634. W. Wood, New Eng. Prosp., II. vii. Anger-boyling blood.
1651. Cleveland, Miser, 29. Ajax with his anger-codled brain.
1879. Spectator, 6 Sept., 1128/2. The sea had scarcely a wrinkle on the salt face which but a night or two before had looked anger-lined and wind-worn.
1839. Bailey, Festus, vii. (1848), 70. Through anger-swollen wave or sparkling spray.
