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Souring   /sˈaʊərɪŋ/   Listen
Souring

noun
1.
The process of becoming sour.





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"Souring" Quotes from Famous Books



... made his name favorably known. He now turned from fiction to the drama, and it was not until after 1870 that he became fully conscious of his vocation as a novelist, perhaps through the trials of the siege of Paris and the humiliation of his country, which deepened his nature without souring it. Daudet's genial satire, 'Tartarin de Tarascon', appeared in 1872; but with the Parisian romance 'Fromont jeune et Risler aine', crowned by the Academy (1874), he suddenly advanced into the foremost rank of French ...
— Fromont and Risler, Complete • Alphonse Daudet
... burned for causing frost in summer; for destroying crops with hail; for causing storms—for making cows go dry; for souring beer; for putting the devil in emptyings so that they would not rise. The life of no one was secure. To be charged was to be convicted. Every man was at the mercy of every other. This infamous belief was so firmly ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll


Words linked to "Souring" :   spoiling, spoilage, sour


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