different between anger vs instigate

English

Etymology

From Middle English anger (“grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath”), from Old Norse angr, ?ngr (“affliction, sorrow”) (compare Old Norse ang, ?ng (“troubled”)), from Proto-Germanic *angazaz (“grief, sorrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?en??- (“narrow, tied together”). Cognate with Danish anger (“regret, remorse”), Norwegian Bokmål anger (“regret, remorse”), Swedish ånger (“regret”), Icelandic angur (“trouble”), Old English ange, enge (“narrow, close, straitened, constrained, confined, vexed, troubled, sorrowful, anxious, oppressive, severe, painful, cruel”), Dutch anjer (“carnation”), German Angst (“anxiety, anguish, fear”), Latin ang? (“squeeze, choke, vex”), Albanian ang (“fear, anxiety, pain, nightmare”), Avestan angra (angra, “destructive”), Ancient Greek ???? (ánkh?, “I squeeze, strangle”), Sanskrit ???? (a?hu, “anxiety, distress”). Also compare with English anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perhaps to awe and ugly. The word seems to have originally meant “to choke, squeeze”.

The verb is from Middle English angren, angeren, from Old Norse angra. Compare with Icelandic angra, Norwegian Nynorsk angra, Norwegian Bokmål angre, Swedish ångra, Danish angre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ???(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ???/
• Rhymes: -æ???(?)
• Hyphenation: an?ger

Noun

anger (countable and uncountable, plural angers)

1. A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.

2. (obsolete) Pain or stinging.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:anger

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

anger (third-person singular simple present angers, present participle angering, simple past and past participle angered)

1. (transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

   He who angers you conquers you.

2. (intransitive) To become angry.

   You anger too easily.

Synonyms

• (to cause anger): enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate
• (to become angry): get angry (see angry for more)

Translations

References

• anger in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Notes:

Anagrams

• Agner, Negar, Regan, areng, grane, range, rangé, regna, renga

Cornish

Noun

anger m

1. anger (strong feeling of displeasure)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse angr, from Proto-Germanic *angazaz.

Alternative forms

• angre, angir, angyr, hanger, angur, aunger, angure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an??r/

Noun

anger (plural angers)

1. Grief, painfulness, or discomfort; a feeling of pain or sadness.
2. A trouble, affliction, or vexation; something that inflicts pain or hardship.
3. Angriness, ire; the state of being angry, enraged, or wrathful.
4. Indignation, spitefulness; the feeling of being wronged or treated unfairly.
5. (rare) Irritableness; the state of being in a foul mood.

Derived terms

• angerly
• angren
• angry

Descendants

• English: anger
• Scots: anger

References

• “anger, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-29.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse angra.

Verb

anger

1. Alternative form of angren

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse angr.

Noun

anger m (definite singular angeren) (uncountable)

1. regret, remorse, contrition, repentance, penitence

Related terms

• angre
• bondeanger

References

• “anger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse angr.

Noun

anger m (definite singular angeren) (uncountable)

1. regret, remorse, contrition, repentance, penitence

Related terms

• angre
• bondeanger

References

• “anger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Verb

anger

1. present tense of ange.

Anagrams

• genar, regna

English

Etymology

From the Latin ?nst?g?tus, past participle of ?nst?g?re (“to instigate”), from prefix in- (“in”) + *stigare, akin to stinguere (“push, goad”). Compare German stechen (“to prick”), English stick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nst??e?t/

Verb

instigate (third-person singular simple present instigates, present participle instigating, simple past and past participle instigated)

1. (transitive) to incite; to bring about by urging or encouraging
   • 2017, Desa Markovic, Working with Sexual Issues in Psychotherapy

     If the man perceives that his partner has arousal or orgasmic difficulties, this is likely to influence his desire to instigate sexual activity and/or his enjoyment and pleasure in being sexual with his partner.

2. (transitive) to goad or urge (a person) forward, especially to wicked actions; to provoke
   • 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity

     he might instigate them to swear against the law of God

   • 1738-1741, William Warburton, Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist

     He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity.

   Synonyms: animate, encourage, impel, incite, provoke, spur, stimulate, tempt, urge

   Antonyms: halt, prevent, stop

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• instigate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• instigate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Esperanto

Adverb

instigate

1. present adverbial passive participle of instigi

Latin

Verb

?nst?g?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?nst?g?