Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who forsakes or deserts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who forsakes or deserts.

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  • noun One who forsakes.

Etymologies

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From forsake +‎ -er.

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Examples

  • Dr. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, the founding director of the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and, incidentally, the most influential mentor in my professional life, included a section in her curriculum asking students to consider the "generative tension" between the role of the artist as "world mover" and "world forsaker."

    Kristen Paglia: Arts Education Makes America Stronger by Making Stronger Americans Kristen Paglia 2011

  • Dr. Jessica Hoffmann Davis, the founding director of the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and, incidentally, the most influential mentor in my professional life, included a section in her curriculum asking students to consider the "generative tension" between the role of the artist as "world mover" and "world forsaker."

    Kristen Paglia: Arts Education Makes America Stronger by Making Stronger Americans Kristen Paglia 2011

  • Despite this one point of comparison, the two politicians are hardly at all in similar fashion camps; indeed, no one would identify Obama and Mao Zedong, another famous forsaker of neckwear, as being in the same "sartorial spot."

    It's Not Ties That Bind 2007

  • Hostage maker, hostage taker neither a mover nor a shaker just an old fashioned faker and a bloody peace forsaker.

    Taken hostage 2004

  • But the latter would at any rate be an indication that she was ill, and the former furnish a presumption, vague enough, it is true, that the forsaken one, or forsaker

    The Guermantes Way 2003

  • Arabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated by all men, as a forsaker of the laws and execrable, as an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt:

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision

  • Arabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated by all men, as a forsaker of the laws and execrable, as an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt:

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • Arabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated by all men, as a forsaker of the laws and execrable, as an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt:

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

  • Arabians, in order for his destruction, flying from city to city, hated by all men, as a forsaker of the laws and execrable, as an enemy of his country and countrymen, he was thrust out into Egypt:

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

  • For though he was a notable ensample by his introduction of religion, yet he was the first who was seen to neglect it, and this illustrious promoter of holiness proved a most infamous forsaker of the same.

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

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