Definition of "sowle" [sowle]

• Obsolete spelling of soul. (noun)

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• "Liberman informs us that the word "sex" goes back to 1382 -- "Of alle thingis hauynge sowle of ony flehs, two thow shalt brynge into the ark, that maal sex and femaal lyuen with thee" -- but the first use of it to refer to "genital pleasure" is in this D.H."
• "Sirs, heere comyth Henry, kyng Henryes sone the Vth, on whos sowle God have mercy, amen."
• ""A compendious and a very fruitful treatise teaching the waye of dyenge well, written to a frende by the floure of lerned men of his tyme, Thomas Lupsete, Londoner, late deceassed, on whose sowle Jesu have mercy. 1541.""