wrengthとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: rĕngth, IPA: /ɹɛŋθ/
• 韻: -ɛŋθ

名詞

wrength (uncountable)

1. (rare and now nonstandard) The state or condition of being wrong; wrongness; wrongfulness; error.
   • 1823, Ringan Gilhaize, The covenanters, by the author of Annals of the parish:

     Those who would exalt themselves by abetting the strength of the Godless, and the wrength of the oppressors.

   • 1905, Juvenile Nonfiction:

     [...] Wrong is short-lived, and right must vanquish at length, If, scorning the wrong, we do others no wrength.

   • 2012, Amber McRee Turner, Sway:

     "Dad," I said, "this isn't an in-between, is it?" "This isn't an in-between," He said. "Honestly, Cass, I'm at a loss for what to call this." "I know exactly what to call it," I said. "Wrength." "Wrength?" "Wrongness." In fact, the way I saw it, Mom had invented a whole new level of wrongness. A bad so bad that wrength might not even be capable of describing it. [...]"

   • 2022, Jaymin Shah, Life Travel, page 12:

     This world is full of wrength,
     Nothing will be done till we stand up to it upto
     its maximum length […]

   • 2024, Maria Qatato, The Return of the Sun & Other Poems:

     In wrength they banished him, astride
     His vengeful rage now rode, and chide
     He did his sense, his kin and home;
     Yet sunderance he would not abide.

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