lorner

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lorner

  1. comparative form of lorn: more lorn
    • 1917, Helen Beecher Long, How Janice Day Won, page 265:
      I'm a poor lone woman — loner and lorner than I've felt since my poor, sainted Charles passed away.
    • 1929, Telephony, volume 97, page 24:
      They did not dare agree with her, as that would have made her "loner" and "lorner" than ever.