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  • A painful wrenching in my heart made me cry aloud, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me!"  (source)
    forsaken = abandoned
  • ...won't be Forsaken much longer. Once Valentine uses the Cup on them, they'll be Shadowhunters as good as the rest of us—  (source)
    Forsaken = abandoned or helpless
  • Would he think we had forsaken him and deliberately ripped his wife's clothes--viciously broken the pigs?  (source)
    forsaken = abandoned or given up on
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  • For the Elves of the High Kindred had not yet forsaken Middle-earth,  (source)
    forsaken = abandoned
  • 'I will not forsake her,' I said wearily.  (source)
    forsake = abandon or give up on
  • Here a poor prisoner, forsook by the world and friends, fretted his sorrowful life.  (source)
    forsook = abandoned or gave up on
  • The Code demanded a forsaking of nuclear weapons and strategic bombing campaigns in all but the most extreme cases but, more than that, it demanded a return to Old Earth medieval concepts of set battles between small, professional forces at a mutually agreed upon time in a place where destruction of public and private property would be kept to a minimum.†  (source)
    forsaking = abandoning or giving up on
  • Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes,  (source)
    forsakes = abandons (stops helping)
  • See how Sir Tristram hunteth, and hawketh, and cowereth within a castle with his lady, and forsaketh your worship.†  (source)
    forsaketh = abandons or gives up on
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She forsaketh" in older English, today we say "She forsakes."
  • Don't forget, the story didn't end in his sense of forsakenness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • 9:18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations; 9:19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.†  (source)
    forsookest = abandoned or gave up on
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou forsookest" in older English, today we say "You forsook."
  • (To FAUST, who has left the dance:) Wherefore forsakest thou the lovely maiden, That in the dance so sweetly sang?†  (source)
    forsakest = abandon or give up on
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou forsakest" in older English, today we say "You forsake."
  • There was something sad and a little frightening about the place, because it all seemed so forsaken and long ago.  (source)
    forsaken = abandoned
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