forspent [fawr-spent] ExamplesWord Origin adjective Archaic.
- worn out; exhausted.
Also forespent. Origin of forspent past participle of Middle English forspenden, Old English forspendan. See for-, spend Examples from the Web for forspent Historical Examples of forspent
No wonder there is an appalling infant mortality, while a childbed death is too often the fate of the forspent mother.
Edward Alsworth Ross
British Dictionary definitions for forspent forspent forespent adjective
- archaic tired out; exhausted