frore
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of frore
1200–50; Middle English froren; past participle of freeze
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
Earliest heats that follow frore Nervèd leaf of hellebore, Sweet willow, checkerberry red, With its savory leaf for bread.
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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!—
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The world outside was lit; wrapped in that frore splendour which the night unrolls over lands of snow when the sky is clear and the moon is shining.
From Maria Chapdelaine by W. H. Blake
In Milton's lines, —— the piercing air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire,—Paradise Lost, b. ii., we have a form from the Anglo-Saxon participle gefroren = frozen.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
