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Wrath vs. Rath — What's the Difference?

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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