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Synonyms for orc
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : awrk |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɔrk |
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Définition of orc
Origin :- "ogre, devouring monster," Old English orcþyrs, orcneas (plural), perhaps from a Romanic source akin to ogre, and ultimately from Latin Orcus "Hell," a word of unknown origin. Revived by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) as the name of a brutal race in Middle Earth.
- But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. ["Return of the King," 1955]
- As in whale : noun cetacean mammal
- The battle with the Orc is borrowed from the tale of Perseus.
- Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature » by John Addington Symonds
- One merely gathers, that Orc releases himself in order to marry the shadowy daughter of Urthona,—Ah!
- Extract from : « William Blake » by Irene Langridge
- The prelude is the lament of a nameless shadowy female, who rises from out the breast of Orc.
- Extract from : « William Blake » by Irene Langridge
- Orc is heard raging on Mount Atlas, where he is chained down with the chain of jealousy.
- Extract from : « William Blake » by Irene Langridge
- But with the dawn of that morning Orc descended in fire, “and in the vineyards of red France appeared the light of his fury.”
- Extract from : « William Blake » by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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