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loring

loring noun: instructive discourse; instruction; teaching.

Noun

loring (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Instructive discourse; instruction; teaching.
    • all they, as a Goddesse her adoring, / Her wisedome did admire, and hearkned to her loring.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Loring

Loring

  1. A surname.
  2. A census-designated place in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska.
  3. A ghost town in Wright County, Missouri.
  4. An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Montana.

Origin of loring

From lore + -ing.

Questions about loring

What does loring mean?
Loring means instructive discourse; instruction; teaching.
What part of speech is loring?
Loring can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near loring in the dictionary

  1. lorimers
  2. lorimery
  3. Lorinda
  4. loriner
  5. loriners
  6. loring
  7. Lorinna
  8. Lorio
  9. Loriol
  10. Lorios
  11. loriot

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