grame
Americannoun
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Archaic. anger.
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sorrow, hurt, or resentment.
Example Sentences
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I lome þu dest me grame 50 ⁊ seist me boþe tone ⁊ schame Ȝif ich þe holde on mine uote.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
Now god and goddess give you grame 15Disgrace of Romulus!
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
He answered, "Hearken to my answer; that I lie not aught: and may the high gallows and all things of grame have me, if I lie one word!"
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by William Morris
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 Jean Jules Jusserand
Much thou speakest, Many things fearful, All grame be on Gunnar The bane of Sigurd!
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by William Morris
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