Grame

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
2. (obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.

Example Sentences

to save the from the Blame of all my greffe & grame

God's strength shall be my trust, / Fall it to good or grame / 'Tis in his name.

Age doth me mvche grame.

Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail. For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail.

The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.

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