sordor

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The sordor of civilisation, mixed

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  1. Filth; dregs; refuse; sordes. [Rare.] The sordor of civilisation mix'd With all the savage which man's fall hath fix'd. Byron, The Island, ii. 4.

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  1. from Latin as if *sordor, from sordere, be filthy: see sordid, sordes.
 

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