Wrath vs. Rath — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Wrath and Rath
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Wrath
Extreme anger
He hid his pipe for fear of incurring his father's wrath
Rath
(in Ireland) a strong circular earthen wall forming an enclosure and serving as a fort and residence for a tribal chief.
Wrath
Forceful, often vindictive anger.
Rath
A chariot, especially one used to carry an idol in a ceremonial procession.
Wrath
Punishment or vengeance as a manifestation of anger.
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Rath
(historical) A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
Wrath
Wrathful.
Rath
A Burmese carriage of state.
Wrath
Great anger.
Homer relates an episode in the Trojan War that reveals the tragic consequences of the wrath of Achilles.
Rath
A hill or mound.
Wrath
(rare) Punishment.
Rath
A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.
Wrath
Wrathful; wroth; very angry.
Rath
Coming before others, or before the usual time; early.
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies.
Wrath
(obsolete) To anger; to enrage.
Rath
Early; soon; betimes.
Why rise ye up so rathe?
Too rathe cut off by practice criminal.
Wrath
Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.
Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed.
When the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased.
Now smoking and frothingIts tumult and wrath in.
Wrath
The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.
Wrath
See Wroth.
Wrath
To anger; to enrage; - also used impersonally.
If him wratheth, be ywar and his way shun.
Wrath
Intense anger (usually on an epic scale)
Wrath
Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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