Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
Sorrow; grief; misery.
to save the from the Blame of all my greffe & grame
To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.
Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail. For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail.
From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- ...
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To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.
The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.