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Definition of Grame
1. n. Anger; wrath; scorn.
Definition of Grame
1. Noun. (obsolete) Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) Sorrow; grief; misery. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To vex; grill; make angry or sorry. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To grieve; be sorry. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grame
1. anger [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grame
Literary usage of Grame
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, Helen Child Sargent (1904)
"... grame.' 6 ' О I will gang to Silver Wood, Though I shoud never win hame; For
the thing I most desire on earth Is to speak wi ..."
2. Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems by James Watson (1869)
"On the Death of Sir John the grame. TT Ere lies Sir John theG/vz ffz<?,baith
wight and -*• •*• wife, One of the Worthies, ..."
3. English and Scottish Ballads edited by Francis James Child (1860)
"... grame. From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, iii. 162. " THIS ballad is
published from tradition, with some conjectural emendations. ..."
4. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"On the very second page we have lookes substituted for " bookes," and on the next
leaf but one, grame is misprinted for " greene," &c. ..."
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