English

Adjective

sorie

1. Obsolete spelling of sorry
   • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster:

     And I do not write this, that in exhorting to the one, I would dissuade yong ientlemen from the other: yea I am sorie, with all my harte, that they be giuen no more to riding, then they be: For, of all outward qualities, // Ryding. to ride faire, is most cumelie for him selfe, most necessarie for his contrey, and the greater he is in blood, the greater is his praise, the more he doth excede all other therein.

   • 1621, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete:

     I am sorie you have not been at London all this while, but ye provissions could not want you.

   • 1890, Edwin Asa Dix, A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees:

     "'Sir,' quod I, 'hath the Erie of Foiz made any amendes for the dethe of that knight or sorie for his dethe?'

Anagrams

• osier, Rosie