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Definition of Sorer
1. sore [adj] - See also: sore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorer
Literary usage of Sorer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"This, of -which there are only mutilated leaves and fragments of a panicle without
sorer or fruit, in Wallich' s Herbarium, may be only 8. mangifera. 21. ..."
2. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"And is not mine, my/, a sorer case PS 73 Goody!, forbear! you deal in dangerous
thing* PS 75 And more abusive, calls himself my/. PM 112 No Nam« !—be calm ! ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"... close room and then smoke them with dried leaves until they have gotten their
sorrel hue ; sorer, to reek, to dry or make red as herrings in the smoke. ..."