All 3 Uses of
forlorn
in
Emma
- Look! in places you see it is dreadfully dirty; and the wainscot is more yellow and forlorn than any thing I could have imagined.†
Chpt 2.11-12 *
- It had been a very happy fortnight, and forlorn must be the sinking from it into the common course of Hartfield days.†
Chpt 2.11-12
- It reminded her of their first forlorn tete-a-tete, on the evening of Mrs. Weston's wedding-day; but Mr. Knightley had walked in then, soon after tea, and dissipated every melancholy fancy.†
Chpt 3.11-12
Definition:
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(forlorn) sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned