grame
Americannoun
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Archaic. anger.
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sorrow, hurt, or resentment.
Example Sentences
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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 Morris, William
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 Chaucer, Geoffrey
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 Hall, Joseph
Now god and goddess give you grame 15Disgrace of Romulus!
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Morris, William
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