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ˈGod-forˌsaken, ppl. a.
Of persons: depraved, profligate, abandoned. Of places: desolate, dismal, dreary. Hence ˌGod-forˈsakenly adv., ˌGod-forˈsakenness.
1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocr. Wks. (Bohn) II. 77 Knowing..what a crew of God-forsaken robbers they are. 1860G. du Maurier Lett. (1951) 25 Tom, nurse & foster thine aversion towards the Godforsaken city in which thy lines are cast now. 1886T. Heney Fortunate Days 85 The God-forsakenest spot that ever mine eyes were set on. 1903Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 12/1 Of course, it is not of the same date as Brive. But it has the God-forsakenness, the misère, the penetrating sadness, its essentially French charm. 1913D. H. Lawrence Let. 13 May (1932) 123 Some of the reviews have been so God-forsakenly stupid. 1923W. P. Ker Art of Poetry 60 You come with Milton..to the Paradise of Fools in a dry, parched, and god⁓forsaken land on the outside of the fixed stars. 1959‘M. Cronin’ Dead & Done With iv. 61 You wouldn't know any place in this God-forsaken spot? |