Meanings
plural loresmen
- archaicAn instructor or teacher of traditional wisdom.
An academician or other learned person who is the student of a particular discipline; a loresman.
1999, Lewis Turco, The book of literary terms1 more example
A whittler of course, and volunteer fireman, a loresman of stone and all the materials of Nature, beech and maple, elm and ash, and all the secret, invisible grains of the human heart.
2010, Stanley Elkin, George Mills
Origin
- Middle Englishloresman
- Englishloresman
From Middle English loresman, equivalent to lore + -s- + man.
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loresman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loresman
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