Forsake
[fə'seɪk] or [fɔrˈsek,fə-]
Definition
(v. t.) To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.
(v. t.) To renounce; to reject; to refuse.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Leave, quit, desert, relinquish, abandon, renounce, forswear, drop, give up, give over, cast off.
Editor: Rochelle
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABANDON]
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Definition
v.t. to desert: to abandon:—pr.p. forsāk′ing; pa.t. forsook′; pa.p. forsāk′en.—adj. Forsāk′en.—adv. Forsāk′enly.—ns. Forsāk′enness; Forsāk′ing abandonment.
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Examples
- He says he hopes you are not going to forsake us. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Ought he to forsake her? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Nor will I forsake you till you forsake yourself. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And it is not worth while to forsake justice and virtue for the attractions of poetry, any more than for the sake of honour or wealth. Plato. The Republic.
- His many failures caused his friends to forsake him and he was put in prison for not paying his debts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Daylight began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o'clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Yet you have forsaken England. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She turned aside her head; the neck, the clear cheek, forsaken by their natural veil, were seen to flush warm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- How gloomy the forsaken garden--grey now with the dust of a town summer departed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But these things with Fred outside them, Fred forsaken and looking sad for the want of her, could never tempt her deliberate thought. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They were quite alone in a forsaken little stream-mouth, and on the knoll just behind was the clump of trees. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- These poor friends would never understand why she had forsaken them; and there were many others besides. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Before quite leaving her he threw upon her face a wistful glance, as if he had misgivings on the generosity of forsaking her thus. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It will be remembered that at a somewhat similar crisis in life young Robert Burns entertained seriously the idea of forsaking Scotland for the West Indies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He bared his wrist, and offered it to me: the blood was forsaking his cheek and lips, they were growing livid; I was distressed on all hands. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes, I murmured, as I undrew the bolt and passed out. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is not in my nature to be in the least romantic or sentimental, yet when Parker forsakes me I shall die of it! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Then it seemed as if all good forsook me. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago, said I, speaking as seriously as he had done. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For a moment her presence of mind forsook her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Whoever says he forsook her says what's not true. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Raymond sat among them, though while he entered into the spirit of the hour, his natural dignity never forsook him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Notwithstanding his distressed situation, neither his mental faculties nor his natural cheerfulness ever forsook him. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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