Definition of "poore" [poore]

• Obsolete spelling of poor. (adjective)

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• "Thus may you helpe to driue idlenesse the mother of most mischiefs out of the realme, and winne you perpetuall fame, and the prayer of the poore, which is more woorth then all the golde of"
• "Thus may you helpe to driue idlenesse the mother of most mischiefs out of the realme, and winne you perpetuall fame, and the prayer of the poore, which is more woorth then all the golde of Peru, and of all the West"
• "2675: Iustices of Peace, to call poore men before them, a-bout"