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Lorn vs Xorn - What's the difference?

lorn | xorn |

As an adjective lorn

is (obsolete) lost, doomed.

As a noun xorn is

(fantasy) a fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth.

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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    xorn

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (fantasy) A fictional monster that devours earthen and silicate materials and can move freely through earth.
  • * 2002 , "David Damerell", Where are they come from?(SIC) ;)'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.development )
    • Various monsters can tunnel through rock - either humanoid monsters with picks or rock eaters like rock moles and umber hulks; and some monsters like xorns and ghosts can pass through it without digging.
  • * 2007 , "bear", Makes Lovely Julienne Ogres....'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.roguelike.angband )
    • Teleporting from an open room where there were a dozen black orcs firing bows at me and more pouring in through both doors a few nights ago didn't work the first two times, then when it did work it landed me, low on mana and hitpoints, in a room full of gnome mages who instantly summoned four umber hulks and a xorn !
  • * 2010 , Roger Bourke White, Rostov Rising: The Tales of Baron Rostov (page 229)
    • That afternoon, I summoned a Xorn —an earth elemental noted for its speed—and asked it to scout the caves of the Dragon's lair for me.