grame

Etymology

From Middle English grame, gram, grome, from Old English grama (“rage, anger, trouble, devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *gramô (“anger”), *gramaz (“fiend, enemy”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to rub, grind, scrape”). Cognate with Middle Dutch gram (“angry”), Dutch gram (“wrath”), Middle Low German gram (“anger”), German Gram (“grief, sorrow”), Old Danish gram (“devil”), Icelandic gramir, gröm (“fiends, demons”). Related to gram (“angry”, adjective), grim.

grame means anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why “grame” is a great word

GRAME — [Noun, Verb] As a noun, a state of anger, wrath, or sorrow; as a verb, to vex, grieve, or provoke to anger. From Middle English grame, gram, from Old English grama ("rage, anger, trouble"), from Proto-Germanic *gramô ("anger"), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- ("to rub, grind, scrape"). Earliest known use in Old English. Unlike "wrath," which implies a righteous or divine fury, or "grief," which specifies a sorrow born of loss, grame is the older, duller ache of a spirit rubbed raw. It is the resentful scrape of a branch against a window, the persistent grate of a splinter beneath the skin, and the low warmth of a resentment banked long after the argument has ended—the quiet, abrading presence of a trouble that is both anger and sorrow at once.

noun

Anger; wrath; scorn; bitterness; repugnance.
Sorrow; grief; misery.“to save the from the Blame of all my greffe & grame”

verb

To vex; grill; make angry or sorry.“Men may leave all games, / That sailën to St James; / For many a man it grames / When they begin to sail. For when they have take the sea, / At Sandwich, or at Winchelsea, / At Bristol, or where that it may be, / Their hearts begin to fail.”
To grieve; to be sorry; to fret; to be vexed or displeased.“The crane and the curlewe thereat gan to grame.”