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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: colère, from Latin cholera 'disease caused by bile', from Greek, from chole 'bile'; because bile was thought to cause anger

choler

 noun
     
chol‧er [uncountable]
literary great anger:
What had brought on this fit of choler?
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