2. Manner; form of being or acting.

Which for my part I covet to perform, In sort as through the world

I did proclaim.

Spenser.

Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by

those that wear them.

Hooker.

I'll deceive you in another sort.

Shak.

To Adam in what sort Shall I appear?

Milton.

I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied

his style.

Dryden.

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