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Lorn vs Dorn - What's the difference?

lorn | dorn |

As an adjective lorn

is lost, doomed.

As a noun dorn is

a British ray; the thornback.

lorn

English

Adjective

(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.
  • Derived terms

    * lorness * lovelorn

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    dorn

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A British ray; the thornback.
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