All 9 Uses of
forsake
in
Jane Eyre
- Daylight began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o'clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight.†
p. 19.8forsake = abandon or give up on
- It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who, after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest robes, and resolves to meet the false one that night at a ball, and prove to him, by the gaiety of her demeanour, how little his desertion has affected her.†
p. 121.6forsaken = abandoned or given up on
- "The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago," said I, speaking as seriously as he had done.†
p. 144.1forsook = abandoned or gave up on
- No: Adele is not answerable for either her mother's faults or yours: I have a regard for her; and now that I know she is, in a sense, parentless — forsaken by her mother and disowned by you, sir — I shall cling closer to her than before.†
p. 170.4forsaken = abandoned or given up on
- Won't she feel forsaken and deserted?†
p. 303.6
- Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes,
p. 344.1 *forsakes = abandons (stops helping)
- He bared his wrist, and offered it to me: the blood was forsaking his cheek and lips, they were growing livid; I was distressed on all hands.†
p. 351.1forsaking = abandoning or giving up on
- He would feel himself forsaken; his love rejected: he would suffer; perhaps grow desperate.†
p. 368.8forsaken = abandoned or given up on
- In the tractability with which, at my wish, you forsook a study in which you were interested, and adopted another because it interested me; in the untiring assiduity with which you have since persevered in it — in the unflagging energy and unshaken temper with which you have met its difficulties — I acknowledge the complement of the qualities I seek.†
p. 465.7forsook = abandoned or gave up on
Definition:
to abandon or give up on -- such as someone who needs you, or an idea, or a place