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# sore

«sore» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **severe, very great** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

severe, very great

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Severe or very great, as in a very bad famine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sore/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today sore means painful or aching. The famine sentences use the old sense of severe; the nose sentence uses today's sense.

### examples

- And the famine was sore in the land. (Torah GEN.43.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sore/#x1)
- And his nose was all sore. (The Jungle Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sore/#x2)
- And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth. (Torah GEN.41.57, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sore/#x3)

### primary record

sore

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 99 (Torah 16, tales 83, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 11.2 (Torah alone 37.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1359/)
- [And the famine was sore in the land.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1400/)
- [And her rival vexed her sore, to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.6/)
- [and she was in bitterness of soul — and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.10/)
- [And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.475/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sore» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sore/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.