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English
Etymology
From Middle English lorefadyr, larefadir, larfadir, equivalent to lore + father.
Noun
lorefather (plural lorefathers)
- (archaic, rare) A male teacher
- Of all men they do most evil, Their lorefather is the devil. — MS. Harleian, quoted by Halliwell.
2010, Gav Thorpe, The Crown of the Blood:Not in Ullsaard's lifetime had anyone gone up there, but in generations past every equinox and solstice had seen the flames dancing high as the loremothers and the lorefathers had led the people in their rituals of sacrifice to appease the spirits of sky and earth and forest.
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