Meanings
alternative obsolete frorne
- archaicnot comparablepoeticFrozen; intensely cold; frosty.
My heart-blood is nigh well frorn I feel.
1575, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender5 more examples
But consyderyng we be so surely ascertayned of the lacke therof, and that our bloud is there frorne with the cold ayre of Scotlande, there was neuer prynce more vyolently compelled to warre then we be, […]
1542, The Complaynt of Scotlande, page 197The lake..was soon ‘frorn’, as they say in Suffolk.
1880, Sharp, Sword of DamoclesOn the frorn coast of Inishfree, And Lal's first bed the plunging sea.
1896, Munsey's Magazine, volume 14, page 376[…] in drifts, the frorn forest aches heaves grieves and uplifts its arms with cruel icicles weighted to the hated demons for ruth; […]
1902, William Norman Guthrie, The Old Hemlock and Other Symbols, page 18Out of the frorn and falling sleep That such as we so long must keep, […]
1949, Harriet Monroe, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volumes 74-75, page 82
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*freusaną“to freeze”
- Proto-Germanic*fruzanaz“frozen”
- Proto-West Germanic*froʀan
- Old Englishfroren
- Middle Englishfroren
- Englishfrorn
From Middle English froren, from Old English froren, ġefroren (“frozen”), from Proto-West Germanic *froʀan, from Proto-Germanic *fruzanaz (“frozen”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”). Doublet of frore and frozen. Cognate with Dutch gevroren (“frozen”), German Low German froren (“frozen”), German gefroren (“frozen”).
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