Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
choler .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It comes from the Latin verb colere, which means to tend or take care of.
Archive 2008-08-31 papabear 2008
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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,
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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
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Nonne ridiculum lugere quod colas, vel colere quod lugeas?
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