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grame

noun

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 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.

  1. derived from *gʰrem-✻
  2. inherited from *gramô✻
  3. inherited from grama
  4. inherited from grame

Definitions

  1. Anger

    Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.

  2. Sorrow

    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.

  3. To vex

    To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To grieve

      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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA