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godforsakenness

noun

Etymology

From godforsaken + -ness.

  1. inherited from *frasakan✻ — “to forsake, renounce”
  2. inherited from forsacan — “to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”
  3. inherited from forsaken — “to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from”
  4. suffixed as forsaken — “forsake + n”
  5. formed as godforsaken — “god + forsaken”
  6. suffixed as godforsakenness — “godforsaken + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being godforsaken.

    • The godforsakenness of the place is something more than a figure of speech.

The neighborhood

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