Loured vs Soured - What's the difference?
loured | soured |
(lour)
To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
* 1623 [1593] , (First Folio), act I, scene i
* 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
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To frown; to look sullen.
* (rfdate) John Dryden:
That has become, or has been made sour.
(sour)
As verbs the difference between loured and soured
is that loured is (lour) while soured is (sour).As an adjective soured is
that has become, or has been made sour.loured
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* *lour
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(en verb)- And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our hou?e
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
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- But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.