Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extremely excited or agitated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wrought with a high degree of art or skill; finely finished.
- Wrought up to a high degree; agitated; intense: as, high-wrought passion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate.
- adjective Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree.
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Examples
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On the present occasion, the lion of the hour, Mr. Francis Tyrrel, had so little answered the high-wrought expectations of Lady Penelope, that she rather regretted having ever given herself any trouble about him, and particularly that of having manoeuvred herself into the patronage of the tea-table for the evening, to the great expenditure of souchong and congo.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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And yet what other conclusion remained, saving the rejection of his addresses by Flora, an alternative not to be thought of in the present high-wrought state of his feelings with anything short of mental agony.
Waverley 2004
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Such a scene must have been one of deepest interest and high-wrought passion.
Introduction, I.1 2002
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“No fear, no fear,” answered Lord Glenvarloch, ashamed of the construction she put upon a momentary hesitation, arising from a dislike to look upon what is horrible, often connected with those high-wrought minds which are the last to fear what is merely dangerous — “I will do your errand as you desire; but for you, you must not — cannot go yonder.”
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We came to her like visitors from heaven itself; her high-wrought courage; her hardly sustained firmness, fled with the appearance of relief.
The Last Man 2003
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Such a scene must have been one of deepest interest and high-wrought passion.
The Last Man 2003
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Yet with these high-wrought ideas, my feelings were far from partaking of a tinge of disappointment on my first and final landing on the shores of Brazil.
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Yet with these high-wrought ideas, my feelings were far from partaking of a tinge of disappointment on my first and final landing on the shores of Brazil.
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With him went enthusiasm, the high-wrought resolve, the eye that without blenching could look at death.
The Last Man 2003
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Reason came unavailing to such high-wrought feelings.
The Last Man 2003
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