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   Word of the Day for Monday, April 17, 2006

 

choler \KOLL-ur; KOLE-ur\, noun:
Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.

 

And at last he seems to have found his proper subject: one that genuinely engages his intellect, truly arouses his characteristic choler and fills him with zest.
-- "Black Humor': Could Be Funnier", New York Times, January 12, 1998

I found my choler rising.
-- Samuel Richardson, A Collection of the Moral and Instructive Sentiments... in the Histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison


Choler is from Latin cholera, a bilious disease, from Greek kholera, from khole, bile.

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