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Webster 1828 Edition


Irous

I'ROUS

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Adj.
[from ire.] Apt to be angry.

Definition 2024


irous

irous

English

Adjective

irous (comparative more irous, superlative most irous)

  1. (obsolete) irascible; passionate
    • 1394, Chaucer, “v. 2063”, in The Summoner's Tale:
      And right anon this irous, cursed wrecche / Leet this knyghtes sone bifore hym fecche...


Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin *irosus, from ira (anger, rage) + -osus.

Adjective

irous m (oblique and nominative feminine singular irouse)

  1. enraged; furious; very angry

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