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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Soreness

· Sore·ness · IPA
01 n. The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.
  1. 1.
    The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.