Frote vs Frore - What's the difference?
frote | frore |
(archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
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* 1883 , Religion in Europe, historically considered , page 13:
* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad) , XLVI, lines 15-16
* , (Rupert Brooke), Song
(archaic, rare) (freeze)
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As verbs the difference between frote and frore
is that frote is (obsolete) to rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe while frore is .frore
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade,
- Expiring in the frore and foggy air.
- For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.
- Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore .
- My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore .
Verb
(head)- And down below all fretted and frore ,