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History vs Lore - What's the difference?

history | lore |

In obsolete terms the difference between history and lore

is that history is to narrate or record while lore is past tense of lose.

history

English

Alternative forms

* historie (obsolete) * hystory (nonstandard) * hystorie (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia history) (wikiversity history lecture)
  • The aggregate of past events.
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  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jan Sapp), volume=100, issue=2, page=164
  • , magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Race Finished , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}
  • The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
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  • , volume=189, issue=13, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Lessons of past cast shadows over Syria , passage=History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.}}
  • A set of events involving an entity.
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  • A record or narrative description of past events.
  • A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
  • A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
  • (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
  • Shared experience or interaction.
  • There is too much history between them for them to split up now.
    He has had a lot of history with the police.

    Synonyms

    * (aggregate of past events) background, past * (record or narrative description of past events) account, chronicle, story, tale * medical history * log

    Derived terms

    * alternate history * antihistory * antihistoricist, antihistoricism * art history * call history * case history * credit history * family history * herstory * historian * historic * historical * historically * historiography * history repeats itself * life history * local history * medical history * microhistory * natural history * oral history * postal history * prehistory * prehistorian * prehistoric * prosecution history * pseudohistory

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To narrate or record.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Statistics

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    References

    lore

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lore, from (etyl) '', German ''Lehre . See also (l).

    Noun

  • all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
  • the lore of the Ancient Egyptians
  • * Milton
  • His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore .
  • The backstory created around a fictional universe.
  • (obsolete) workmanship
  • (Spenser)
    Derived terms
    * birdlore * booklore * catlore * doglore * faxlore * fishlore * folklore * photocopylore * woodlore * wortlore * xeroxlore

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
  • (anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
  • Derived terms
    * lored

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (lose)
  • * Spenser
  • Neither of them she found where she them lore .

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