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Forsake   /fɔrsˈeɪk/   Listen
verb
Forsake  v. t.  (past forsook; past part. forsaken; pres. part. forsaking)  
1.
To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. "If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments."
2.
To renounce; to reject; to refuse. "If you forsake the offer of their love."
Synonyms: To abandon; quit; desert; fail; relinquish; give up; renounce; reject. See Abandon.






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"Forsake" Quotes from Famous Books



... own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a ...
— Leaves of Life - For Daily Inspiration • Margaret Bird Steinmetz

... "God refuse me" occurs in Webster's White Devil (ed. 1871, p. 7), where Dyce quotes from Taylor, the water poet: "Would so many else in their desperate madnes desire God to Damne them, to Renounce them, to Forsake them, to Confound them, to Sinke them, to Refuse them?" "Against Cursing and Swearing," ...
— A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Various

... beginning to mourn their general as dead, saw blood issue from the city, and joyfully they cried out with one accord: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One." Joab mounted a high tower, and in stentorian tones shouted: "The Lord will not forsake his people." Inspired with high and daring courage, the Israelites demanded permission to assault the city and capture it. As Joab turned to descend from the tower, he noticed that six verses of a Psalm were inscribed on his foot, the ...
— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG

... the human soul. Just Father, the world hath not known Thee, but I have known Thee. Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy. I have separated myself from Him— They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water. My God, will you forsake me?— ...
— Pascal • John Tulloch

... Scripture, that Church calls upon them, in the first place, gratefully to adore that undeserved goodness which has awakened them from the sleep of death; to prostrate themselves before the Cross of Christ with humble penitence and deep self-abhorrence; solemnly resolving to forsake all their sins, but relying on the Grace of God alone for power to keep their resolution. Thus, and thus only, she assures them that all their crimes will be blotted out, and that they will receive from above a ...
— A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. • William Wilberforce


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