| 释义 |
forsaken, † forsake, ppl. a.|fəˈseɪk(ə)n|
[pa. pple of forsake v.]
In senses of the verb.
1. Deserted, left solitary or desolate.
c1305Pilate 238 in E.E.P. (1862) 117 He..caste hit wiþoute þe toun among olde walles forsake. 1388Wyclif Ps. lxii[i]. 3 In a lond forsakun. c1430Lydg. Venus-Mass in Lay Folks Mass Bk. (1879) Notes 395 Me semeth amonges all I am on of the most for-sake. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. iii. 3 Forsaken, wofull, solitarie mayd. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. (1634) 532 This banished Nation retained their..love of their forsaken Country. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest ii, This apparently forsaken edifice might be a place of refuge to banditti. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) IV. xviii. 218 Their forsaken state was not owing to any oppression.
†b. Of words: Disused, obsolete. Obs.
1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. vi. 53 The articles of league..could very hardly in his time be understood, by reason of the old forsaken words.
†2. Morally abandoned. Also absol. Obs.
1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxx. 206 Bot, quhair the iust dois ioyne thame with forsakin, Be war thay get not wickit Acabs takin. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlii. §13 Those impious forsaken miscreants.
Hence forˈsakenly adv.; forˈsakenness.
1591Harington Orl. Fur. xxxii. xlvii, Leaves..Forsakenly about the tree doth lye. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 93 To make me the more miserably end with neglectiue forsakennesse. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 252 So could the Hero [Dante], in his forsakenness..still say to himself. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. I. xvii Tragedies of the copse..where the helpless drag wounded wings forsakenly. |