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Forsake   /fɔrsˈeɪk/   Listen
verb
Forsake  v. t.  (past forsook; past part. forsaken; pres. part. forsaking)  
1.
To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. "If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments."
2.
To renounce; to reject; to refuse. "If you forsake the offer of their love."
Synonyms: To abandon; quit; desert; fail; relinquish; give up; renounce; reject. See Abandon.





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"Forsake" Quotes from Famous Books



... that I shall forget or forsake you; for if, when I examine you, I find that you have not lost your time, you shall ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... the fairy, "that you secure my good offices only by deserving them. If you prove unworthy of my kindness, I shall feel it proper to forsake you; and you will be left in a more deplorable state than this from which I am now desirous to relieve you." The brother and sister protested again and again, that they should never forgive themselves if they could be guilty of any ...
— The Flower Basket - A Fairy Tale • Unknown
... more word, While my heart beats still, While my breath is stirred 40 By my fainting will. O friend forsake me not, Forget not as I forgot: But keep thy heart for me, Keep thy faith true and bright; Through the lone cold winter night Perhaps I may ...
— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti
... Scots were cruel compatriots for me, sire; they had forced me to forsake the religion of my fathers; they had hung Lord Montrose, the most devoted of my servants, because he was not a Covenanter; and as the poor martyr, to whom they had offered a favor when dying, had asked that his body might be cut into as many ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... thy descendants who serve thy plume and crown, when thou art gone, will forsake Culhuacan, and as ...
— Ancient Nahuatl Poetry - Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. • Daniel G. Brinton


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