frore
adjEtymology From Middle English frore, froare, yfrore, froren, from Old English froren, ġefroren (“frozen”), from Proto-West Germanic *froʀan, from Proto-Germanic *fruzanaz (“frozen”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”). Doublet of frorn and frozen.
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Archaic Extremely cold; frozen.
- We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade, Expiring in the frore and foggy air.1818, Percy Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 9:
- For heavenly beauty, mid perennial springs, Feels not the change, which frore sad winter brings.1883, Religion in Europe, historically considered, page 13:
3 more examples
- Till we conceive their heavens hoar, Those lights they raise but sparkles frore,1888, George Meredith, Meditation under Stars:
- Or if one haulm whose year is o'er / Shivers on the upland frore.1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLVI, lines 15-16:
- My heart all Winter lay so numb / The earth so dead and frore.c. 1916, Rupert Brooke, Song:
- Derived terms
- frory