"wretch" meaning in Anglais

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Noun

IPA: \ɹɛtʃ\, ɹɛtʃ Audio: En-us-wretch.ogg Forms: wretches [plural]
  1. Pauvre hère, malheureux.
  2. Scélérat. Tags: familiar
    Sense id: fr-wretch-en-noun-5f~o6d7o Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire, Termes familiers en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: wretched

Inflected forms

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    "(Siècle à préciser) Du vieil anglais wreċċa, du germanique *wrakjô (« banni, vagabond »), apparenté à wreak et garçon via le français."
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      "form": "wretches",
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        "\\ˈɹɛtʃ.ɪz\\"
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      "word": "retch"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof."
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          "ref": "Emily Brontë alias Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. II, Chapter II, Thomas Cautley Newby (éd.), 1847 (1ʳᵉ éd.), Londres, page 27",
          "text": "\"Poor wretch!\" I thought; \"you have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be so anxious to conceal them? Your pride cannot blind God! You tempt him to wring them, till he forces a cry of humiliation!\"",
          "translation": "— Pauvre malheureux ! pensais-je. Tu as un cœur et des nerfs tout comme les hommes tes frères. Pourquoi vouloir les cacher ? Ton orgueil ne peut aveugler Dieu. Tu l’incites à les torturer jusqu’à ce qu’il t’arrache un cri d’humilité. — (Emily Brontë,Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent dans la bibliothèque Wikisource , traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Frédéric Delebecque, Chapitre XVI, Payot, Paris, 1946, Paris, page 232)"
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    "(Siècle à préciser) Du vieil anglais wreċċa, du germanique *wrakjô (« banni, vagabond »), apparenté à wreak et garçon via le français."
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          "translation": "— Pauvre malheureux ! pensais-je. Tu as un cœur et des nerfs tout comme les hommes tes frères. Pourquoi vouloir les cacher ? Ton orgueil ne peut aveugler Dieu. Tu l’incites à les torturer jusqu’à ce qu’il t’arrache un cri d’humilité. — (Emily Brontë,Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent dans la bibliothèque Wikisource , traduit de l’anglais (Royaume-Uni) par Frédéric Delebecque, Chapitre XVI, Payot, Paris, 1946, Paris, page 232)"
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