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Ormulum

Ormulum proper noun: a twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, whose author is a monk named Orm.

Proper noun

the Ormulum

  1. (historical) A twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, whose author is a monk named Orm.

Origin of Ormulum

From the author’s name, Orm, modeled after Latin speculum (“mirror”), so popular in the title of medieval Latin non-fiction works that the term speculum literature is used for the genre.

Questions about Ormulum

What does Ormulum mean?
Ormulum means a twelfth-century work of biblical exegesis, whose author is a monk named Orm.
What part of speech is Ormulum?
Ormulum is a proper noun.

Words near Ormulum in the dictionary

  1. Ormside
  2. Ormskirk
  3. Ormskirk terrier
  4. Ormston
  5. Ormstons
  6. Ormulum
  7. Ormuri
  8. Ormus
  9. Ormuz
  10. ormyrid
  11. ormyrids

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