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What does ireful mean?

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Adjective
  1. Deeply angered but not outwardly displaying it. Full of ire; angry; wroth.
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Mr. Rochester was a princely and heroic master, and, despite his ireful frown and brusque, moody manner, Jane felt at ease in his presence.
The Count at that word so ireful grew, He smote his wife that the blood out-flew.
He sprang up again and turned his ireful face to where, in the crowd, sat the old politician.
He still made a jest of her remonstrance, trying the temper of the animal, and rejoicing in its dark flushes of ireful vigour.
As she paces to and fro the ugly din fades out of her ears and the ireful red out of her cheeks.
It's not just Mirren who is the target of Letts's ireful article, however, but all women.

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