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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of forsake.

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forsake +‎ -est

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Examples

  • But they fled, that they might not see Thee seeing them, and, blinded, might stumble against Thee (because Thou forsakest nothing Thou hast made); that the unjust, I say, might stumble upon Thee, and justly be hurt; withdrawing themselves from thy gentleness, and stumbling at Thy uprightness, and falling upon their own ruggedness.

    The Confessions 1999

  • This is the state we were in until thou, O Most High, who never forsakest our lowliness, didst take pity on our misery and didst come to our rescue in wonderful and secret ways.

    Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

  • Saying: O Lord God of heaven and earth, behold their pride, and look on our low condition, and have regard to the face of thy saints, and shew that thou forsakest not them that trust on thee, and that thou humblest them that presume of themselves, and glory in their own strength.

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

  • Saying: O Lord God of heaven and earth, behold their pride, and look on our low condition, and have regard to the face of thy saints, and shew that thou forsakest not them that trust on thee, and that thou humblest them that presume of themselves, and glory in their own strength.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 18: Judith The Challoner Revision

  • Without doing this, thou, however, forsakest the battle in fear and enhancest the joy of thy foes.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Juliene q {uo} ð he mi deorewurðe dohter. sei me hwi þu forsakest þi sy ⁊ ti selhðe? þe weole {n} ⁊ te wunnen. þe walden awakenen. ⁊ waxen of þe wedlac þ̵ ich reade þe to : hit nis nan  {70} eðelich þing. þe refschipe of rome. ant tu maht ȝef þu wult. beon burhene leafdi. ⁊ of alle þe londes þe þer {} to liggeð.

    Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

  • Saying: O Lord God of heaven and earth, behold their pride, and look on our low condition, and have regard to the face of thy saints, and shew that thou forsakest not them that trust on thee, and that thou humblest them that presume of themselves, and glory in their own strength.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • For if thou forsakest me, or gettest any illness by continually sitting by me, we perish; for thee I have my only succor, by the rest, as thou seest, abandoned.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • But they fled, that they might not see Thee seeing them, and, blinded, might stumble against Thee4 (because Thou forsakest nothing Thou hast made5); that the unjust, I say, might stumble upon Thee, and justly be hurt; withdrawing themselves from thy gentleness, and stumbling at Thy uprightness, and falling upon their own ruggedness.

    The Fifth Book 1909

  • And if thou hast _sorrow for thy sins_, and because thou art so long in exile out of thy country, and forsakest the solace of this life: thou shalt have for this sorrow the joy of heaven.

    The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901

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