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Definition of Sorned
1. sorn [v] - See also: sorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorned
Literary usage of Sorned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"They sorned, stole, and never by any possibility worked when they could help it.
" Simmins lived off the neighbouring plantations as much as did their ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"The lake rose ten feet during the month I sorned upon the Shepherd. First Sunday
morning we thought of going to the kirk ; but looking through my snug ..."
3. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1895)
"sorned, and came home — to the great grief of his brother John; all which appears
in the story of Ivanhoe, and in the chronicles of the time—based upon the ..."
4. Ringan Gilhaize; Or, The Covenanters by John Galt (1823)
"... but the words he then sang was an auld ranting godless and graceless ditty of
the grooms and serving-men that sorned about his father's smiddy,—and the ..."
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