Definitions
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- adjective obsolete Much worn.
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- adjective rare or archaic
worn-out - adjective rare or archaic
exhausted - adjective rare or archaic
decayed
Etymologies
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Past participle of forwear ("to wear out"), from Middle English forweren ("to wear out"), from for- + weren. More at for-, wear.
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Heartiest Procellaria aequinoctialis forworn stock company Overpass Sandiver cato dionysius
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Babylon, ') than he, whosoever it was, that of late hath set forth, to the hurt of christian men, certain rhapsodies and shreds of the old forworn stories, almost forgotten -- had he not (Parker) now lately awakened them out of a dead sleep, and newly sewed them together in one book printed; whose glorious life promiseth not mountains of gold, as that silly heathen woman's (the aforesaid Queen) tomb, but beareth
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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