lornadj.
/lɔːn/, U.S. /lɔrn/ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > destroyed
forwroughta1325
lorna1400
destroyedc1440
perishedc1440
shentc1440
defeatc1540
spiltc1540
dissolved?1541
interempt1561
baned1568
mischievedc1570
defeated1578
ruined1585
downcast1592
gone1598
collapsed1610
to take up for hawks' meat1612
naughta1616
blasted1747
wreckeda1821
butchered1839
fucked-up1863
kaput1895
piled-up1906
shambled1940
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 22080 Al þat birth þat þar es born Be wick, and fals, and felun lorn.
a1400–50 Alexander 5 Sayntis, Þat lete þer lifis be lorne for oure lordis sake.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. vi. 9 O, stanch ȝour wraith for schame, or all is lorn!
?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lxxxvii. 241 Hierusalem: most fortunate, To nurse both Iewe: and gentile lorne.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. xxiii. 24 If thou readest thou art lorn! Better hadst thou ne'er been born!
2. Abandoned, left alone; bereft of; lonely, desolate, wretched; = forlorn adj. 4, 5.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > [adjective]
ormodeOE
ortroweOE
aerwenec1275
wanlessa1300
desesperatc1384
despairedc1400
wanhopelyc1425
lornc1475
desperate1483
wanhope1549
hopelost1570
despairfula1586
forlorn1603
despairinga1616
hopelessa1616
unhopinga1628
lost1709
au désespoir1766
unanticipative1847
unhopeful1850
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > left alone
outcasta1325
desolatec1386
lornc1475
destitute1530
widoweda1586
destituteda1680
marooned1883
waif-like1924
waifish1936
c1475 Partenay 3885 Raymound, out fro wit for wo almoste lorn.
1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Induct. lxxvii With gastly lookes as one in maner lorne.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Jan. 62 I..am forlorne, (alas! why am I lorne?).
1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. i. 57 If any thing excuse Iehosophat or Hezechias for suffering the Idolatrous Temples..it was because they were lorne, forlorne.
1749 W. Collins Ode Death Thomson viii. 7 Lorn Stream, whose sullen Tide No sedge-crown'd Sisters now attend.
?1793 S. T. Coleridge Lines Beautiful Spring 18 The rustic..Whistling lorn ditties leans upon his crook.
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 77 That sky Hath nought beneath it half so lorn as I.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 152 Space starr'd, and lorn of light.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 363 When lorn lovers sit and droop.
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxvii. 121 She might be despised by my lord's circle, and left lone and lorn.
Derivatives
ˈlornness n. forlornness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [noun]
desperationc1366
desperateness1667
hopelessness1808
lornness1866
1866 London Rev. 28 Apr. 470/2 The very lornness of his condition won for him their tender consideration.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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