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Definition for SORE-LY
SOR'EL
SORE-NESS
SORE-LY
, adv. [from sore.]
With violent pain and distress; grievously; greatly; as, to be sorely pained or afflicted.
Greatly; violently; severely; as, to be sorely pressed with want; to be sorely wounded.
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