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- noun The quality of being
godforsaken .
Etymologies
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godforsaken + -ness
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Examples
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And he answered without a moment's hesitation that Huddleston, Michigan, would satisfy my loftiest ideal of godforsakenness.
Blacksheep! Blacksheep! Meredith Nicholson 1906
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Confessions, VII, 10.16: man, who is created in God’s likeness, falls in his godforsakenness into the “zone of dissimilarity” – into a remoteness from God, in which he no longer reflects him, and so has become dissimilar not only to God, but to himself, to what being human truly is.
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