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forlet

verb

Etymology

From Middle English forleten (“forsake, reject, renounce, omit, lose, forgive”), from Old English forlǣtan (“to leave”), from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną (“to leave, dismiss”), equivalent to for- + let. Cognate with Scots forleet (“to forsake, abandon”), Saterland Frisian ferläite (“to forlet, abandon”), West Frisian forlitte (“to forlet”), Dutch verlaten (“to desert, abandon”), German verlassen (“to leave”), Swedish förlåta (“to excuse, forgive, remit”).

  1. inherited from *fralētaną✻
  2. inherited from forlǣtan
  3. inherited from forleten

Definitions

  1. To abandon

    To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect.

    • to forlet your sins
    • I soothly quoth, then say, to you, for that each such, he that forlets wife his, be-out unclean lust doing forth-lying thing, doeth (works) he doeth the same to sin, …
    • But, by my soul, I dare well swear His wretched life he shall forlet [...]

  2. To forget.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA