Forworn vs Forwarn - What's the difference?
forworn | forwarn |
(rare or archaic) worn-out
(rare or archaic) exhausted
(rare or archaic) decayed
To prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc.).
*1690 , Thomas Shadwell, The amorous bigotte :
*1708 , Samuel Sewall, Diary :
*1840 , Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, The works of Charles Lamb :
As an adjective forworn
is (rare or archaic) worn-out.As a verb forwarn is
to prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc).forworn
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* forewornAdjective
(en adjective)forwarn
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* (l)Verb
(en verb)- Oh Cousin this wicked Duoena, this Grycta suspects the good Woman who brought the Letter, and has forwarn'd her the House.
- I meet the Workman by Mr. Pemberton's Gate, and forewarn him from making of it; [...]
- [...] having been caught putting the inside of the master's desk to a use for which the architect had clearly not designed it, to justify himself, with great simplicity averred, that he did not know that the thing had been forewarned .