Both Uses
forlorn
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Earth's Holocaust
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- This harangue excited great mirth among the bystanders; but, preposterous as was the sentiment, I could not help commiserating the forlorn condition of the last toper, whose boon companions had dwindled away from his side, leaving the poor fellow without a soul to countenance him in sipping his liquor, nor indeed any liquor to sip.†
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- "O, my books, my books, my precious printed books!" reiterated the forlorn bookworm.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(forlorn) sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)