forleave
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English forleven; equivalent to for- + leave. Compare Old High German firleiban.
Verb
[edit]forleave (third-person singular simple present forleaves, present participle forleaving, simple past and past participle forleft)
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To depart from (someone); leave (someone) behind; abandon; forsake; desert; give up; relinquish.
- 1475, Hilton:
- In a lityll I forlefte the.
- 1475, Hilton: