† forleavev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To leave behind, give up, abandon, forsake, depart from.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)] > forsake
forlet971
beleavec1175
letc1175
forleavec1225
forsakea1300
waivec1330
forgoa1400
forhowa1400
sakea1400
forloinc1400
forlesec1460
abandonc1475
destitute1530
aband1587
bandon1587
leese1590
linquish1591
desert1603
derelicta1631
c1225 Juliana 33 Ich am wilcweme ne forleaf þu me nawt luuiende lauerd.
c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 374 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 340 I drede me that God us hath for-laft out of his hond.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. metr. iii. 5 Dirknesses for-leften me.
c1440 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) i. xxxviii In a lityll I forlefte the.
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