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chollor

chollor is the obsolete spelling of choler.

Meaning of choler

Noun

choler (usually uncountable, plural cholers)

  1. (historical, usually) Yellow bile.
  2. (usually) Anger or irritability.
    • Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,
      Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,
      I ſtand agaſt: but moſt aſtonied
      To ſee his choller ſhut in ſecrete thoughtes,
      And wrapt in ſilence of his angry ſoule.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

Forms of chollor

pluralchollors

Questions about chollor

What is chollor the obsolete spelling of?
Chollor is the obsolete spelling of choler.

Words near chollor in the dictionary

  1. choller
  2. Chollerford
  3. chollers
  4. Chollerton
  5. chollima
  6. chollor
  7. Cholmeleian
  8. Cholmeleians
  9. Cholmeley
  10. Cholmondeley
  11. Cholmondeleys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chollor (page history and authors); choler (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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