brame
English
Etymology
From Middle English brame, from Old French brame, bram (“a cry of pain or longing; a yammer”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną (“to roar; bellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make a noise; hum; buzz”). Compare Old High German breman (“to roar”), Old English bremman (“to roar”). More at brim. Compare breme.
Noun
brame (uncountable)
- (obsolete) intense passion or emotion; vexation
- Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book III, Canto II, 52
- ... hart-burning brame / She shortly like a pyned ghost became.
- Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book III, Canto II, 52
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for brame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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