Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
soul .
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- noun Obsolete spelling of
soul .
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Examples
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Liberman informs us that the word "sex" goes back to 1382 -- "Of alle thingis hauynge sowle of ony flehs, two thow shalt brynge into the ark, that maal sex and femaal lyuen with thee" -- but the first use of it to refer to "genital pleasure" is in this D.H.
Archive 2007-06-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Sirs, heere comyth Henry, kyng Henryes sone the Vth, on whos sowle God have mercy, amen.
Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip
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What shall it profite a mã/yf he wynne al the worlde/and lose his owne sowle.
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Hwilch hit is þar sowle wunieð hwu biter wind þar bloweð.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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[I] ch can ben aiðer ȝief isal lichame ⁊ sowle lache.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Fyrst I bequethe my sowle to Almyghty god or [our] lady St. Mary and all the holy company of heyvyng, my bodie to be buried in the church yarde of Cukefeld.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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So biþ þeo [bu] rdtid · mid ba ` le´wen imenged · so biþ eft þe feorþsiþ · Mid seoruwen al bewunden · þonne þe licame ⁊ þe sowle · soriliche to [dæl] eþ: þonne biþ þ̵ wræcche lif · iended al mid sori siþ · þonne biþ þe [fei] ȝe · iflut to þen flore · 30
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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"A compendious and a very fruitful treatise teaching the waye of dyenge well, written to a frende by the floure of lerned men of his tyme, Thomas Lupsete, Londoner, late deceassed, on whose sowle Jesu have mercy. 1541."
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Þo sulle þe wreche sowle isien þe sinegeden þurh sihte
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Hell go, he says, and sowle the porter of Rome gates by the ears: he will mow down all before him, and leave his passage polled.
bilby commented on the word sowle
"But the bottom of the news is, our general is cut i’ the middle, and but one half of what he was yesterday, for the other has half, by the entreaty and grant of the whole table. He’ll go, he says, and sowle the porter of Rome gates by the ears: he will mow down all before him, and leave his passage polled."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 29, 2009