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Forlorn vs Forlore - What's the difference?

forlorn | forlore |

As verbs the difference between forlorn and forlore

is that forlorn is (obsolete) while forlore is (forlese).

As an adjective forlorn

is abandoned, left behind, deserted.

forlorn

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete)
  • Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Abandoned, left behind, deserted.
  • * (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn .
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.
  • Miserable, as when lonely being abandoned.
  • * (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)
  • For here forlorn and lost I tread.
  • * (1796-1859)
  • The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme.
  • * (Mowbray Thomson) (1832-1917)
  • She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living in captivity
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.}}

    Derived terms

    * forlorn hope * forlornness * forlornly

    Synonyms

    * * (miserable ) forsaken

    forlore

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (forlese)
  • Anagrams

    *

    forlese

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To lose entirely or completely.
  • (obsolete) To destroy, kill.
  • (obsolete) To abandon, forsake.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
  • *:Soone as they bene arriv'd upon the brim / Of the Rich Strond, their charets they forlore [...].
  • (obsolete) To bereave; deprive.
  • Usage notes

    Survives in the derived participle adjective forlorn.