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angerness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English anger Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English angerness From anger + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Affliction or trouble.
    • Hail, innocent of angerness / Our takel, our tol, that we on trow; […] 1860, George Gilfillan, Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets:
    • circa 1350: Anonymous, Hymn to Virgil; quoted in: