† ˈsorance Obs.
Also 6 soraunce, 7–8 sorrance, 7 soarrance.
[f. sore a.1 + -ance, prob. after grievance 4.]
A sore, or a morbid state producing a sore, in an animal, esp. in a horse.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §6 If any sorance come to the horse..than he is lyttell worthe. Ibid. §89 The hawe is a sorance in a horse eye. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 123 A soraunce breeding about the ioyntes. 1610 Markham Masterp. (title-p.), The curing of all maner of diseases or sorrances in horses. Ibid. ii. cviii. 390 The maltlong..is a cankerous soarrance aboue the hoofe. 1655 L. Thetford Perf. Horseman 15 Incurable deformities, gross sorrances, as Spavens, Ringbones,..or the like. c 1720 W. Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. xxi. (1738) 69 When the Sorance is but in one Eye, it [sc. the bandage] ought to reach to the Middle of his Nose. 1749 W. Ellis Shep. Guide 328 These things will afflict them with the nauseous Sorrance. |
b. Used with reference to persons. rare.
| 1592 West 1st Pt. Symbol. §102 Al maner of diseases, griefes and sorances wherewith the said H is now infected. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 155 Seldome or neuer complaine they of any sorance in other parts of the body. |
c. fig. A painful matter; a grievance.
| 1608 Heywood tr. Sallust 35 Their prestinat prerogatives brought passed sorances to remembrance. |