The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.
Origin
From Middle English sornes, sornesse, sarnesse, from Old English sārnes, equivalent to sore + -ness. Cognate with Scots sairness, Old Frisian sērnisse, sērnesse, Middle Low German sêrnisse, sêrenisse.
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