rore en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɹoə/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
- /ɹɔɹ/ (General-American)
- rôr (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɹo(ː)ɹ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
- rōr rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
- rôr (General-American)
- /ɹɔː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rōs, rōris (“dew, moisture”).
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable) dew
Demeas: Let it bee lawfull for mee (most honorable not onerable paire) awhile to reteyne & deteyne ligate & obligate your eares with my words neither aspersed or inspersed with the flore or rore of eloquence, yee are both like in nature, & in nurture alike in Genius & both alike ingenuous. What Timon refuses Callimela refuses, what Callimela wills Timon also wills, soe that Callimela may not bee but Timons Callimela, and Timon but Callimelas Timon.
c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
Relateds
roriferous · rorid · rorulent · rory · roral · rorifluous · roration · rorant · rorigenous · rorifluent