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Sorest

Sore \Sore\, a. [Compar. Sorer; superl. Sorest.] [OE. sor, sar, AS. s[=a]r; akin to D. zeer, OS. & OHG. s?r, G. sehr very, Icel. s[=a]rr, Sw. s[*a]r, Goth. sair pain. Cf. Sorry.]

  1. Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.

  2. Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.

    Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
    --Tillotson.

  3. Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
    --Shak.

  4. Criminal; wrong; evil. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    Sore throat (Med.), inflammation of the throat and tonsils; pharyngitis. See Cynanche.

    Malignant sore throat, Ulcerated sore throat or Putrid sore throat. See Angina, and under Putrid.

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sorest

a. (en-superlative of: sore)

Usage examples of "sorest".

Jesus on the cross, and then a willingness to go on even though it meant the sorest sacrifice.

When the strain of the past week was sorest, in buoying up the spirits of my outfit, I had promised them rest and recreation at the first possible opportunity.

Insult gentle and long-winded Minister of Works directly in sorest point of his vanity?

The Duke paced backwards and forwards with brows drawn down, muttering all this to himself rather than to me, and shaking his head like one in the sorest perplexity.

If it be known that I am wilfully breaking that law, then both you and I will fall into the sorest trouble.

But, reflection telling him that he had done injury to Carinthia--had inflicted the sorest of the wounds a young woman a new bride can endure, he nodded acquiescence to the charge of misbehaviour, and muzzled the cynic.

It was his sorest point, knowing that although he ruled like a king in Western Eldidd, there was a true king in Deverry with jurisdiction over him.

Batu touched his sorest spot, the soft pit just beneath the cleft of his chin.

Insult the gentle and long-winded Minister of Works directly in the sorest point of his vanity?

Ah my friends, that is a sore temptation - the sorest, perhaps, which can meet a man in the long struggle of life, the temptation which success brings.

Goths are at their sorest need and the falcons cease to sit on the ridge of the Great Roof of the Wolfings, he will wake and come forth from the Howe for their helping.

Prairie wolves must not cry like little girl babies--and sometimes when his heart was sorest, a clear, dazzlingly bright day would dawn, and far, far off he could see the blur of the mainland coast, resting on the sea like an enormous island.

I trimmed as much as I could and contrived a sandal that would relieve pressure on the sorest point of that foot, putting another plate on his right hoof to balance him.