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lorner

lorner is the comparative form of lorn.

Meaning of lorn

Adjective

lorn (comparative more lorn, superlative most lorn)

  1. (obsolete) Doomed; lost.
  2. (archaic) Abandoned, forlorn, lonely.
    • I loue thilke laſſe, (alas why do I loue:) / And am forlorne, (alas why am I lorne:) / Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue, / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarie. Aegloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 2, recto

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Questions about lorner

What is lorner the comparative form of?
Lorner is the comparative form of lorn.

Words near lorner in the dictionary

  1. lorn
  2. Lorna
  3. Lorne
  4. Lorne sausage
  5. Lorne sausages
  6. lorner
  7. Lornes
  8. lornest
  9. lornly
  10. lornness
  11. lornnesses

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