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in sort

in sort prepositional phrase: in company (with).

Prepositional phrase

  1. (obsolete) In company (with).
  2. (obsolete) In a way; to some extent.
  3. (obsolete) In such a way (as).
    • Vnto that Elfin knight he bad him fly, / Where he slept soundly void of euill thought, / And with false shewes abuse his fantasy, / In sort as he him schooled priuily […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about in sort

What does in sort mean?
In sort means in company (with).
What part of speech is in sort?
In sort is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in sort in the dictionary

  1. in someone's vocabulary
  2. in someone's way
  3. in something's favor
  4. in something's way
  5. in sooth
  6. in sort
  7. in spades
  8. in special
  9. in specie
  10. in spirit
  11. in spite of

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