in sort

prepositional phrase

In company (with).

First used 15th–16th c.
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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. obsoleteIn company (with).First known use 15th–16th c.
  2. obsoleteIn a way; to some extent.First known use 16th–18th c.
  3. obsoleteIn such a way (as).First known use 16th–17th c.

    Vnto that Elfin knight he bad him fly, / Where he slept soundly void of euill thought, / And with false shewes abuse his fantasy, / In sort as he him schooled priuily […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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APA

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MLA

“in sort.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20sort. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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