Literary notes about WROUGHT (AI summary)
Wrought is often used to convey a sense of deliberate creation or transformation—a term that bridges the tangible and the abstract. In some passages, it describes the physical act of forging or crafting, as in references to meticulously shaped metal or art ([1], [2], [3]), while in others it captures the profound impact of actions or events, whether manifesting as divine miracles, emotional shifts, or vengeful outcomes ([4], [5], [6]). Its usage in historical and biblical texts further underscores a timeless quality, where miraculous events or fateful judgments are rendered as things wrought by forceful will or providence ([7], [8], [9]). Overall, the word enriches literary language by imbuing descriptions with both the precision of craftsmanship and the depth of human experience ([10], [11]).
- Wrought in the past tense and the past participle is archaic, but is also modern as an adjective (as in wrought iron ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - The ordinary wrought iron of the blacksmith contains less than 0.25 per cent of carbon.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - Here are saddles and harnesses—beautifully wrought and silver mounted—kept with every care.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass - For this was the great vengeance wrought on Tarquin's evil seed?
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The melody, which no weakness could destroy, gradually wrought its sweet influence on the senses of those who heard it.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper - The havoc that months had previously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight, 6:23.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - In their times it shall be told to Jacob and to Israel what God hath wrought.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - The most high God hath wrought signs and wonders towards me.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - I think I may say, without seeming egotism, that it is seldom that five years have wrought such a change in the life and aspirations of an individual.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington - That poor soul who has wrought all this misery is the saddest case of all.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker
