Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete See 2d
wreak .
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Examples
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` That Grekes wolde hir wraththe on Troye wreke, 960
Troilus and Criseyde Geoffrey Chaucer
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And ȝef ȝe wolleþ me wreke {;} of [hire] wiþere dedes {;}
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Wiste min loverd Crist, ful wel he wolde be wreke.’
Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick
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4.94.26: And mighty loue will wreke the wrong so cloked with his name.
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Wiste min Loverd Crist, ful wel he wolde be wreke. "
Judas 1300
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