wroken

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊkən/
• Rhymes: -əʊkən

Verb

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?

Anagrams

• Kernow, knower