Both Uses of
forsake
in
The Scarlet Letter
- It may be that it was the talisman of a stern and severe, but yet a guardian spirit, who now forsook her; as recognising that, in spite of his strict watch over her heart, some new evil had crept into it, or some old one had never been expelled.†
p. 121.9forsook = abandoned or gave up on
- And Hester Prynne had returned, and taken up her long-forsaken shame!†
p. 173.6 *forsaken = abandoned or given up on
Definition:
to abandon or give up on -- such as someone who needs you, or an idea, or a place