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sordor|ˈsɔːdə(r)|
[a. Latin type *sordor, corresponding to sordidus as squālor to squālidus, etc.]
Physical or moral sordidness.
1823Byron Island ii. iv, The sordor of civilisation, mix'd With all the savage which man's fall hath fix'd. 1836Emerson Nature, Prospects Wks. (Bohn) II. 173 The sordor and filths of nature. 1874M. Creighton Hist. Ess. i. (1902) 41 The awful background of eternal destiny,..where things lose at once the sordor of common life. 1929Oxford Poetry 28 The world..rises and falls On a wave of confetti and funerals And sordor and stinks and stupid faces. 1934T. S. Eliot After Strange Gods i. 17 The sordor of the half-dead mill towns of southern New Hampshire and Massachusetts. 1982Observer 10 Oct. 30/8 Budd, as a kid, knew the sordor behind the glamour. |