different between unwrought vs upwrought

English

Etymology

From Middle English unwrought, unwroght, unwrou?t, equivalent to un- +? wrought. Doublet of unworked.

Adjective

unwrought (comparative more unwrought, superlative most unwrought)

1. In the native state, before being worked on; especially used of bars of bullion and other metal

Translations

Verb

unwrought

1. simple past tense and past participle of unwork
   • c. 1845-46, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, If Thou Must Love Me^[1]:

     […] Do not say
     ‘I love her for her smile — her look — her way
     Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought
     That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
     A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ —
     For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
     Be changed, or change for thee, — and love so wrought,
     May be unwrought so. […]

English

Etymology

up- +? wrought

Adjective

upwrought (comparative more upwrought, superlative most upwrought)

1. wrought-up
   • 1934, Oscar W. Firkins, Memoirs and Letters

     For a short time he served his father as timekeeper in a lumber yard in North Dakota — a miserable experience for him, as can readily be imagined. He came home unhappy, in a nervously upwrought state, began to shun his former associates […]

Anagrams

• wrought-up