sore

«sore» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: severe, very great — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

severe, very great

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Severe or very great, as in a very bad famine. tree →

how it differs from today

Today sore means painful or aching. The famine sentences use the old sense of severe; the nose sentence uses today's sense.

examples

• And the famine was sore in the land. (Torah GEN.43.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• And his nose was all sore. (The Jungle Book) tree →
• And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth. (Torah GEN.41.57, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

sore

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 99 (Torah 16, tales 83, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 11.2 (Torah alone 37.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.
• And the famine was sore in the land.
• And her rival vexed her sore, to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
• and she was in bitterness of soul — and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
• And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sore» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.