brame

noun /bɹeɪm/

1. Intense passion or emotion; vexation.

   obsolete, uncountable

   She ſhortly like a pyned ghoſt became.

   […] hart-burning brame

Where it comes from

From Middle English brame, from Old French brame, bram (“a cry of pain or longing; a yammer”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *brammjan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną (“to roar; bellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make a noise; hum; buzz”). Compare Old High German breman (“to roar”), Old English bremman (“to roar”). More at brim. Compare breme.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry brame (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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