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Webster 1913 Edition


Squalor

Squa′lor

(skwā′lôr)
,
Noun.
[L., fr.
squalere
to be foul or filthy.]
Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.
The heterogeneous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of
squalor
.
I. Taylor.
To bring this sort of
squalor
among the upper classes.
Dickens.

Webster 1828 Edition


Squalor

SQUALOR

,
Noun.
[L.] Foulness; filthiness; coarseness.