forsakenforsakeadj.
/fəˈseɪk(ə)n/, /fɔːˈseɪk(ə)n/, U.S. /fərˈseɪkən/ In senses of the verb.† 2. Morally abandoned. Also absol. Obsolete.
1. † b. Of words: Disused, obsolete. Obsolete.
a. Deserted, left solitary or desolate.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adjective] > forsaken
forsakenc1305
abandoned1477
desert1480
forlorn1535
waived1577
forlorn1579
deserted1629
relinquished1635
derelict1649
desolated1803
c1305 Pilate 238 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 117 He..caste hit wiþoute þe toun among olde walles forsake.
1388 J. Wyclif Psalms lxii[i]. 3 In a lond forsakun.
c1430 J. Lydgate Venus-Mass in Lay Folks Mass-bk. (1879) Notes 395 Me semeth amonges all I am on of the most for-sake.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C2 Forsaken, wofull, solitarie mayd.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxvii. §4. 624 This banished Nation retained their..loue of their forsaken Countrie.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 52 This apparently forsaken edifice might be a place of refuge to banditti.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 218 Their forsaken state was not owing to any oppression.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > [adjective] > living, dead, or archaic
forsakena1613
living1657
mort1659
modern1699
middle1830
archaic1832
relict1887
a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) vi. 43 The articles of league..could very hardly in his time be vnderstood, by reason of the old forsaken words.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > immorality > immoral person > [adjective] > and abandoned
forlorn1154
reprobate1557
forsaken1572
self-losta1586
unprincipled1644
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > morally or spiritually ruined or lost > sunk in vice or abandoned
project?a1475
forsaken1572
1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxx. 206 Bot, quhair the iust dois ioyne thame with forsakin, Be war thay get not wickit Acabs takin.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlii. 89 Those impious forsaken miscreants.
Derivatives
forˈsakenly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adverb] > forsakenly
forsakenly1591
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxii. xlvii. 261 Leaues..Forsakenly about the tree do lye.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xvii. 342 Tragedies of the copse..where the helpless drag wounded wings forsakenly.
forˈsakenness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > deserting a person or thing > condition of being deserted
dereliction1597
forsakenness1621
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 93 To make me the more miserably end with neglectiue forsakennesse.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 145 So could the Hero [sc. Dante], in his forsakenness..still say to himself.
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