Lore vs Lorn - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between lore and lorn

is that lore is their while lorn is (obsolete) lost, doomed.

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

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)

* birdlore * booklore * catlore * doglore * faxlore * fishlore * folklore * photocopylore * woodlore * wortlore * xeroxlore

From (etyl)

(en noun)

(anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

(anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.

* lored

(head)

(obsolete) (lose)

* Spenser

Neither of them she found where she them lore .

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(en adjective)

(obsolete) lost, doomed

(archaic) abandoned, lonely, forlorn

* 1874 , , XIX

The mighty river flowing dark and deep, (...)

Is named the River of the Suicides;

For night by night some lorn wretch overweary,(...)

Within its cold secure oblivion hides.

* 1963': He never found his beloved machine gun. '''Lorn and drained-nervous, he was fired next day. — Thomas Pynchon, ''V.

* lorness * lovelorn