WRACKSOME ADJ. destructive ...1608 obs, rare ETYMOLOGY from wrack (vb.) to wreck a vessel, mariners, etc. + -some First Documented Use: 1608 Now, if so be that any odious sinne Prouoke their Lord his Iustice to begin: Then mine not you their towers and tourets tall, Nor bring the wracksom engine to their wall: Nor place thy battries braue, nor yet aduenter, With thy courageous camp, the breach to enter. From: Bartas his deuine weekes & workes translated: and dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie by Iosuah Syluester - Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas, translated by Joshua Sylvester
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