rare. [f. ANGRY + -NESS: see also earlier ANGERNESS.]
1. The quality of being angry; wrathfulness.
1553. Grimalde, Cicero’s Offices, I. (1558), 40. They would not commende angrinesse.
1561. T. N[orton], Calvin’s Inst., IV. xx. (1634), 739. If they must punish let them not be borne away with a headlong angrinesse.
1658. Whole Duty of Man, x. § 22 (1684), 86. Such an angriness of humour, that we take fire at everything.
1871. R. Ellis, Catullus, xcix. 6. No portion of any Tears could abate that fair angriness.
† 2. Inflamed condition of a sore or wound.
1612. Benvenuto’s Passenger, I. ii. 157 (N.). Their sweate by reason of the vsuall heate, takes away the angrinesse and rednesse of skars.
