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† ˈsorance Obs.
Also 6 soraunce, 7–8 sorrance, 7 soarrance.
[f. sore a.1 + -ance, prob. after grievance 4.]
A sore, or a morbid state producing a sore, in an animal, esp. in a horse.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §6 If any sorance come to the horse..than he is lyttell worthe. Ibid. §89 The hawe is a sorance in a horse eye. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 123 A soraunce breeding about the ioyntes. 1610Markham Masterp. (title-p.), The curing of all maner of diseases or sorrances in horses. Ibid. ii. cviii. 390 The maltlong..is a cankerous soarrance aboue the hoofe. 1655L. Thetford Perf. Horseman 15 Incurable deformities, gross sorrances, as Spavens, Ringbones,..or the like. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. xxi. (1738) 69 When the Sorance is but in one Eye, it [sc. the bandage] ought to reach to the Middle of his Nose. 1749W. Ellis Shep. Guide 328 These things will afflict them with the nauseous Sorrance.
b. Used with reference to persons. rare.
1592West 1st Pt. Symbol. §102 Al maner of diseases, griefes and sorances wherewith the said H is now infected. 1601Holland Pliny I. 155 Seldome or neuer complaine they of any sorance in other parts of the body.
c. fig. A painful matter; a grievance.
1608Heywood tr. Sallust 35 Their prestinat prerogatives brought passed sorances to remembrance. |