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grame

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Definition of grame

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete, uncountable)Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
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noun

  1. (obsolete, uncountable)Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
  2. (obsolete, uncountable)Sorrow; grief; misery.
    “to save the from the Blame of all my greffe & grame”
    “Age doth me mvche grame.”
    “God's strength shall be my trust, / Fall it to good or grame / 'Tis in his name.”

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
    “Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail. For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail.”
  2. (intransitive, obsolete)To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
    “The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.”

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Etymology

From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate…

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From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gram (“angry”), Dutch gram (“wrath”), Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adjective), grim.

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