grame
Americannoun
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Archaic. anger.
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sorrow, hurt, or resentment.
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For hem ne sameð ne ne grameð þe sulle ben iboreȝe 41 Ac þoðre habbeð same ⁊ grame ⁊ oðer fele soreȝe.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
Love be grief and grame: Yet shall such grame and grief entail no shame; * All annals teach us one thing and the same Good current coin clips coin we may not crepe!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Then said Gawaine, thou avauntest thee greatly and speakest proud words, I counsel thee for all thy boast that thou make thee ready, and take thy gear to thee, to-fore greater grame fall to thee.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
But that wot heighe god that sit above, If it be lyker love, or hate, or grame; And after that, it oughte bere his name.
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
To save thee from the blame Of all my grief and grame.
From Creative Unity by Rabindranath Tagore
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