wroken

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wroken

  1. (obsolete) past participle of wreak
    • 1577, Holinshed's Chronicles:
      To have wroken himself of such wrongs as were due him by the French king.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
      How worthily, by Heavens high decree, Iustice that day of wrong herselfe had wroken; That all men, which that spectacle did see, By like ensample mote for ever warned bee.
    • 1912, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas James Wise, Border Ballads, page 21:
      Shall we be wroken of Lord Soulis By water or by land? Or shall we be wroken a great way off, Or even whereas we stand?

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