All 6 Uses of
wrath
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- And it rendered his aspect not the less, but more frightful, that it seemed not to express wrath or hatred, but a certain hot fellness of purpose, which annihilated everything but itself.†
Chpt 8 *wrath = extreme anger
- For once, Hepzibah's wrath had given her courage.†
Chpt 15
- But our affair now is with Judge Pyncheon as he stood confronting the fierce outbreak of Hepzibah's wrath.†
Chpt 15
- Mrs. Gubbins took her departure, still brimming over with hot wrath against the absent Hepzibah.†
Chpt 19
- There being no answer to several repetitions of the summons, Ned began to grow impatient; and his little pot of passion quickly boiling over, he picked up a stone, with a naughty purpose to fling it through the window; at the same time blubbering and sputtering with wrath.†
Chpt 19
- This mode of death had been an idiosyncrasy with his family, for generations past; not often occurring, indeed, but, when it does occur, usually attacking individuals about the Judge's time of life, and generally in the tension of some mental crisis, or, perhaps, in an access of wrath.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
extreme anger or angry punishment