ire
see also: IRE, IrE
Pronunciation Noun
IRE
Proper noun
IrE
Proper noun
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see also: IRE, IrE
Pronunciation Noun
ire
- (obsolete) Iron.
- the cruel ire, red as any gleed
ire (uncountable)
- (literary, poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
, The Knight's Tale. - That lord is now of Thebes the Citee,
- Fulfild of ire and of iniquitee,
- He, for despit and for his tirannye,
- To do the dede bodyes vileynye,
- Of alle oure lordes, whiche that been slawe,
- Hath alle the bodyes on an heep ydrawe,
- And wol nat suffren hem, by noon assent,
- Neither to been yburyed nor ybrent.
- She lik'd not his desire; Fain would be free, but dreaded parents' ire.
, Confessio Amantis - "My good father, tell me this;
- "What thing is ire?
- Sonne, it is That in our English wrath is hote."
- c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:
- If I digg'd up thy forefathers graves, And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long Perplex'd the Greek and Cytherea's son.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 10”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- The sentence, from thy head remov'd, may light On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe; Me! me! only just object of his ire.
- For this th' avenging pow'r employs his darts, And empties all his quiver in our hearts; Thus will persist, relentless in his ire, 'Till the fair slave be render'd to her sire
ire (ires, present participle iring; past and past participle ired)
IRE
Proper noun
- (sports) Abbreviation of Ireland#English|Ireland. Republic of Ireland
IrE
Proper noun
- (linguistics) Abbreviation of Irish English#English|Irish English.
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