Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of choler.

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Examples

  • The baron, too, passed through similar states with some differences, however, for feeling contempt instead of lack of will, he felt a "red anger," or what the French call colere rouge.

    The Argonauts Eliza Orzeszkowa 1876

  • You may say that it's wrong, that the first line is a syllable short, and that Triboulet said _'colere'_ instead of _amour_.

    The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896

  • As Sarko configured himself as a neo-emperor of social regression, a president of the wealthy and the "social state" for the rich, inevitably millions of French men and women would have to vent their colere (anger) in the streets - complete with high-school students marching in defense of old people's rights.

    Pepe Escobar: See You at the Barricades, Babe Pepe Escobar 2010

  • As Sarko configured himself as a neo-emperor of social regression, a president of the wealthy and the "social state" for the rich, inevitably millions of French men and women would have to vent their colere (anger) in the streets - complete with high-school students marching in defense of old people's rights.

    Pepe Escobar: See You at the Barricades, Babe Pepe Escobar 2010

  • As Sarko configured himself as a neo-emperor of social regression, a president of the wealthy and the "social state" for the rich, inevitably millions of French men and women would have to vent their colere (anger) in the streets - complete with high-school students marching in defense of old people's rights.

    Pepe Escobar: See You at the Barricades, Babe Pepe Escobar 2010

  • French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate — [snipped 1-4] 5 a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad

    Dem Committees Still Lead In Total Cash, Despite Surge For RNC 2009

  • It comes from the Latin verb colere, which means to tend or take care of.

    Archive 2008-08-31 papabear 2008

  • Agitantur miseriis, continuis inquietudinibus, neque unquam a solitudine liberi sunt, anxie affiguntur amarissimis intra cogitationibus, semper tristes, suspitiosi, meticulosi: cogitationes sunt, velle agrum colere, stagna amant et paludes,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to [6604] worship by all means the gods of the place, et unumquemque, Topicum deum sic coli oportere, quomodo ipse praeceperit: which Cecilius in [6605] Minutius labours, and would have every nation sacrorum ritus gentiles habere et deos colere municipes, keep their own ceremonies, worship their peculiar gods, which Pomponius Mela reports of the

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nonne ridiculum lugere quod colas, vel colere quod lugeas?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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