sorehon

English

Etymology

Corrupted from sojourn, Scots soirne, sorn.

Noun

sorehon (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A kind of servile tenure in Ireland which required the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sorehon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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