forsaken

forsaken [fawr-sey-kuh n] Examples verb

1. past participle of forsake.

adjective

2. deserted; abandoned; forlorn: an old, forsaken farmhouse.

Related formsfor·sak·en·ly, adverbfor·sak·en·ness, nounself-for·sak·en, adjectiveun·for·sak·en, adjective Examples from the Web for forsakenness Historical Examples of forsakenness

At the beginning we have an imitation of the Ossianic mood of forsakenness and wildness.

Ossian in Germany

Rudolf Tombo

I was struck with the exceeding loneliness and forsakenness of this spot.

Letters from Switzerland

Samuel Irenus Prime

The sound of its feeble cry brought a forsakenness about the mother’s heart nothing could remove.

The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant

Alexander Johnstone Wilson

This sense of forsakenness seems to have had some mysterious connection with the pains of death.

Expositor’s Bible: The Gospel of Matthew

John Monro Gibson

We drive in—into all this silence, this—this ‘forsakenness,’ this dream of a world between her lights of day and night time.

The London Mercury, Vol. I, Nos. 1-6, November 1919 to April 1920

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British Dictionary definitions for forsakenness forsaken verb

1. the past participle of forsake

adjective

2. completely deserted or helpless; abandoned

Derived Formsforsakenly, adverbforsakenness, noun Word Origin and History for forsakenness forsaken adj.

mid-13c., past participle adjective from forsake. Related: Forsakenly.