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Ire   /aɪr/   Listen
Ire

noun
1.
A strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance.  Synonyms: anger, choler.
2.
Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins).  Synonyms: anger, ira, wrath.






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"Ire" Quotes from Famous Books



... at ilke skyl for no scae ascaped hy{m} neu{er}, Wheder wonderly he wrak on wykked men aft{er}; [Sidenote: For the filth of the flesh God destroyed a rich city.] Ful felly for at ilk faute forferde a kyth ryche, I{n} e anger of his ire at ar[gh]ed mony; 572 & al wat[gh] for is ilk euel, at vn-happen glette, e venym & e vylanye & e vycios fyle, at by-sulpe[gh] ma{n}ne[gh] saule i{n} vnsou{n}de hert, at he his saueour ne see ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various

... more salt," said Gladys judicially. Mrs. Evans had forgotten her irritation of the afternoon. The conversation which had aroused her ire before now struck ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at School • Hildegard G. Frey

... tunc lubriciles[2] ultravia circum Urgebant gyros gimbiculosque tophi; Moestenui visae borogovides ire meatu; ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells

... at once appeased the growing ire of the half-offended Indian beauty. It completely got the better of the prejudices of education, and turned all her thoughts to a gentler and more feminine channel. At first, she looked around her, suspiciously, as if distrusting eavesdroppers; then she ...
— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper

... cry; anglers are seated by still pools, shepherds dance around the May-pole, and shepherdesses gather flowers for garlands. Gloomy caves appear, surrounded by hawthorn and holly that "outdares cold winter's ire," and sheltering old hermits, skilled in simples and the secret power of herbs. Sometimes the poet describes a choir where the tiny wren sings the treble, Robin Redbreast the mean, the thrush the tenor, and the nightingale the counter-tenor, ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various


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