grame
Americannoun
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Archaic. anger.
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sorrow, hurt, or resentment.
Example Sentences
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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
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 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 Creative Unity by Tagore, Rabindranath
Now god and goddess give you grame 15Disgrace of Romulus!
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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