frore

[ frawr, frohr ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. frozen; frosty.

frore

/ frɔː /

adjective

1. archaic.
   very cold or frosty

Word History and Origins

Origin of frore¹

1200–50; Middle English froren; past participle of freeze

Word History and Origins

Origin of frore¹

C13 froren , past participle of Old English frēosan to freeze

Example Sentences

Small solace did they take From that frore radiance glistering on the dull Black desert gripped in iron silences, Like a false triumph o'er contestless fates, Or a mirage of life in wastes of Death.

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My little white goat that with raised feet huggest The oak stock, thy horns in the ivies frore, Could I wrestle like thee—how the wreaths thou tuggest!—

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The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.6 The “Inferno” of Dante has also “its eternal darkness for the dwellers in fierce heat and in ice.”

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Great Pentheus, Lord of all this Theban land, I come from high Kithaeron, where the frore Snow spangles gleam and cease not evermore.

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The fog was become a mist here, a frore whitish mist that saturated him with a malignant chill.

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Related Words

• bitter
• bleak
• brisk
• chilled
• cool
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