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Webster 1913 Edition

-or

-or

s

uff.

[L.

-or

: cf. OF.

-or

,

-ur

,

-our

, F.

-eur

.]

1.

A noun suffix denoting an

act

; a

state

or

quality

; as in err

or

, ferv

or

, pall

or

, cand

or

, etc.

2.

A noun suffix denoting an

agent

or

doer

; as in audit

or

, one who hears; don

or

, one who gives; oblig

or

, elevat

or

. It is correlative to

-ee

. In general

-or

is appended to words of Latin, and

-er

to those of English, origin. See

.