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单词 forworn
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forwornadj.

/fəˈwɔːn/
Etymology: modern English (strong) past participle of forwear v.
archaic.
Worn out, exhausted, decayed, grown old, the worse for wear.
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1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. llv To botche or mende an olde forworen thynge.
1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 32v He was an olde forworne souldiour.
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. Aiijv They, who haue..requested me, (an old forworne Mathematicien) to take pen in hand.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vi. sig. F4 A silly man, in simple weeds forworne, And soild with dust.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 545 Old, wearied, and for-worne Hackneyes.
1849 J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante Inferno 32 Those spirits who were foreworn and naked, changed colour.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 410 Slowly he went, for afternoon it was, And with the long way was he much foreworn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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