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Definition of Sordor
1. a sordid state [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sordor
Literary usage of Sordor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The King's English by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1906)
"4.. Needless, though correct formations. The sordor and ... sordor. The Romans,
however, never felt that they needed the word ; and it is a roundabout ..."
2. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1910)
"... in those aspiring days, accounted as achievement, and whose early death, before
the inevitable sordor of worldly concession touched their faces, ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1823)
"Lord Byron talks of the ' sordor of civilization ;' and in a note to p. 66.
he says, ' there are eight years since I read the book. ..."
4. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1910)
"... in those aspiring days, accounted as achievement, and whose early death, before
the inevitable sordor of worldly concession touched their faces, ..."
5. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1910)
"... in those aspiring days, accounted as achievement, and whose early death, before
the inevitable sordor of worldly concession touched their faces, ..."
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