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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sorn.

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Examples

  • How he must have admired the hero of the "Odyssey," who in one way or other accounted for all the wooers that "sorned" upon his house, and had a receipt for their bodies from the grave-digger of

    Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • How he must have admired the hero of the "Odyssey," who in one way or other accounted for all the wooers that "sorned" upon his house, and had a receipt for their bodies from the grave-digger of

    Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • For years and years my brother and I have sorned on the family of this gentleman -- you yourself grant he is that ---- "

    The Dew of Their Youth 1887

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