Definitions
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- noun obsolete
Suffering which comes as a result ofvengeance orretribution .
Etymologies
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Old English ƿracu.
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Examples
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His reverence then cursed by book, bell, and candle, and the people, setting off from the chapel, came in a crowd to the house where I lived, to wrake vengeance upon me.
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Suððen God nom swa muchele wrake for are misdede {;} 205
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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