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Frote vs Frore - What's the difference?

frote | frore |

As verbs the difference between frote and frore

is that frote is (obsolete) to rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe while frore is .

frote

English

Verb

(frot)
  • (obsolete) To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
  • (Ben Jonson)
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    frore

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Extremely cold; frozen.
  • * 1818 , (Percy Shelley), The Revolt of Islam , canto 9:
  • We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade,
    Expiring in the frore and foggy air.
  • * 1883 , Religion in Europe, historically considered , page 13:
  • For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.
  • * 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad) , XLVI, lines 15-16
  • Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore .
  • * , (Rupert Brooke), Song
  • My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic, rare) (freeze)
  • * , (Mary Howitt), The Sea :
  • And down below all fretted and frore ,