[a. Latin type *sordor, corresponding to sordidus as squālor to squālidus, etc.] Physical or moral sordidness.
1823. Byron, Island, II. iv. The sordor of civilisation, mix’d With all the savage which man’s fall hath fix’d.
1836. Emerson, Nature, Prospects, Wks. (Bohn), II. 173. The sordor and filths of nature.
1874. M. Creighton, Hist. Ess., i. (1902), 41. The awful background of eternal destiny,… where things lose at once the sordor of common life.
