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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



... "Still you blazon my faults," he said in a tone of mock sadness, and addressing Carmen. "But, like the Church which you persecute, I shall endure. We have been martyred throughout the ages. And we are very patient. Our wayward children forsake us," nodding toward Father Waite, "and yet we welcome their return when they have tired of the husks. The press teems with slander against us; we are reviled from east to west. But our reply is that ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... extremest dejection.'[11] 'As much love as we give to creatures,' said another saint, 'just so much we steal from the Creator.'[12] 'Two things only do I ask,' said a third,[13] 'to suffer and to die.' 'Forsake all,' said Thomas a Kempis, 'and thou shalt find all. Leave desire and thou shalt find rest.' 'Unless a man be disengaged from the affection of all creatures he cannot with freedom of mind ...
— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky
... For a most sad resolve wakes in my heart; But always I have faith. Old men and women, Be silent; God does not forsake the world. Mary Queen of Angels And all you clouds and clouds ...
— Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race • Maud Isabel Ebbutt
... Sandwich.] he says, is likely to go on; for which I am glad. In the Hall to-day Dr. Pierce tells me that the Queene begins to be briske, and play like other ladies, and is quite another woman from what she was. It may be, it may make the King like her the better, and forsake his two mistresses my Lady Castlemaine and Stewart. [Spelt indiscriminately in the MS ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys
... declared at first that he would go abroad, but father told him that it was cowardly to throw up his work for the sake of a disappointment, however bitter, and mother asked if he really cared so little for his parents that he could forsake them in their old age for the sake of a girl whom he had only known a month. He gave way at last, as I knew he would, and set to work harder than ever. He was very brave, poor old boy, and never broke down nor made any fuss, but he was so ...
— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


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