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grame

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[graym] / greɪm /

noun

  1. Archaic. anger.

  2. sorrow, hurt, or resentment.


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For norþ beoþ þe peutes;     swiþe ohte cnihtes. þat ofte doþ me same;     and þar vore ich habbe grame.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph

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 Malory, Thomas, Sir

But who-so list disport hym in that same, Let hym continue and he shall fynd it grame; It is wel gretter labour than it seemeth.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

—To save thee from the blame Of all my grief and grame.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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