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Definition of Forsook
1. forsake [v] - See also: forsake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forsook
Literary usage of Forsook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"of God, which was just, holy, good, and perfect, it kept them good, just, ' holy,
and savoury ; but when they turned their backs on the Lord, and 'forsook ..."
2. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1903)
"CHAPTER LXXIV How the second day Palomides forsook Sir Tristram, and went to the
contrary party against him. THEN there was a cry unto all knights, ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"About this time, however, the presidency was charged with misappropriating trust
funds, and several prominent leaders forsook the church. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"... forsook the limited society of people where there was neither marriage nor
giving in marriage, and united herself to a staunch Cameronian, and a wealthy ..."
5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"There was a Young Lady of Lucca, Whose lovers completely forsook her; So she
rushed up a tree, and s:iid, " Fiddle-de-dee 1" Which embarrassed the people of ..."
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