forlese
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English forlesen, from Old English forlēosan (“to lose, abandon, let go, destroy, ruin”), from Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną. Equivalent to for- + lese. Cognate with Scots forlore (“to lose”), Dutch verliezen (“to lose”), German verlieren (“to lose”), Swedish förlisa (“to be lost”), Swedish förlora (“to lose”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /fɔːˈliːz/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːz
Verb
[edit]forlese (third-person singular simple present forleses, present participle forlesing, simple past forlore, past participle forlorn)
- (transitive, obsolete) To abandon, forsake.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Soone as they bene arriv'd upon the brim / Of the Rich Strond, their charets they forlore […]
Usage notes
[edit]Survives in the derived participle adjective forlorn.
References
[edit]- “forlese”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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