abandoned; desolate; forlorn
adjective
The definition of forsaken is abandoned or cast aside.
When your lover has left you, this is an example of a time when you have been forsaken.
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Verb
- past participle of forsake
Usage notes
Although the overwhelming number of instances of usage of this suffix is in the word God-forsaken, writers have used it in combination with other words.
Origin
From forsaken, past participle of forsake
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Sentence Examples
- He squeezed her harder, and she opened her eyes, watching the forsaken book burn.
- Natural science was forsaken, except in so far as it ministered to theology.
- As thus the restless reason tests the emotions of the soul, criticizes the traditions to which they cling, rejects the ancient dogmas in which they have been defined, the Church slowly participates in the process: silently this position and that are forsaken, legends and beliefs once of prime importance are forgotten, or when forced into controversy many ways are found by which the old and the new are reconciled: the sharpness of distinctions can be rubbed off, expressions may be softened, definitions can be modified and half-way resting-places afforded, until the momentous transition has been made and the continuity of tradition is maintained.
- Another feature of his works was the large number of excellent sentiments expressed in a brief proverbial form; the Pythagoreans claimed him as a member of their school, who had forsaken the study of philosophy for the writing of comedy.
- In the immediate neighbourhood of the city are the oldest church in or near Palermo, the Lepers' church, founded by the first conqueror or deliverer, Count Roger, and the bridge over the forsaken stream of the Oreto, built in King Roger's day by the admiral George.
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