loring

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noun

Instructive discourse; instruction; teaching.

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Meanings

loring1

nounloring (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableInstructive discourse; instruction; teaching.

    all they, as a Goddesse her adoring, / Her wisedome did admire, and hearkned to her loring.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Loring2

proper noun
  1. A surname.
  2. A census-designated place in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska.
  3. A ghost town in Wright County, Missouri.
  4. An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Montana.

Origin

From lore + -ing.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Rolingorlingglorin
Cite this entry
APA

loring. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loring

MLA

“loring.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loring. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “loring,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/loring.

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