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frorn en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English 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 frore and frozen. Cognate with Dutch gevroren (“frozen”), German Low German froren (“frozen”), German gefroren (“frozen”).

Meanings

1. (archaic, not-comparable, poetic) Frozen; intensely cold; frosty.
   • […] in drifts, the frorn forest aches heaves grieves and uplifts its arms with cruel icicles weighted to the hated demons for ruth; […] 1902, William Norman Guthrie, The Old Hemlock and Other Symbols, page 18:
   • My heart-blood is nigh well frorn I feel. 1575, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:
   • Old Joe grinned. 'You looks like a frorn little calf, girl. […]' 2013, Kate Worsley, She Rises, page 30:
   • On the frorn coast of Inishfree, And Lal's first bed the plunging sea. 1896, Munsey's Magazine, volume 14, page 376:
   • She felt him shiver, his body tremble cold against hers. 'You're getting frorn,' she said. 'We best go indoors.' 2023, Mary Chamberlain, The Lie:
   • But consyderyng we be so surely ascertayned of the lacke therof, and that our bloud is there frorne with the cold ayre of Scotlande, there was neuer prynce more vyolently compelled to warre then we be, […] 1542, The Complaynt of Scotlande, page 197:
   • Out of the frorn and falling sleep That such as we so long must keep, […] 1949, Harriet Monroe, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volumes 74-75, page 82:
   • The lake..was soon ‘frorn’, as they say in Suffolk. 1880, Sharp, Sword of Damocles:

Forms

Relateds

freeze · frory · frost · frore