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Rore vs Frore - What's the difference?

rore | frore |

As a noun rore

is (obsolete) dew.

As a verb frore is

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rore

English

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) dew
  • * circa'' 1600 : , act III, scene V
    • Demeas:?Let it bee lawfull for mee (most honorable not onerable paire) awhile to reteyne & deteyne ligate & obligate your eares with my words neither aspersed or inspersed with the flore or rore of eloquence, yee are both like in nature, & in nurture alike in Genius & both alike ingenuous. What Timon refuses Callimela refuses, what Callimela wills Timon also wills, soe that Callimela may not bee but Timons Callimela, and Timon but Callimelas Timon.

    Related terms

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    References

    * “ †rore, n.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----

    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 ,