forlet

词形变化

forlets 三单 forlets forletting forletting 现在分词

别名

forelet forleet forleit forlete foreleit

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect.

    英国 古体 方言 及物

    to forlet your sins

    I soothly quoth, then say, to you, for that each such, he that forlets wife his, be-out unclean lust doing forth-lying thing, doeth (works) he doeth the same to sin, …

    … whether his mind and his soul were deadly and perishing, or it were aye living and eternal; and again, about his good, what it was, and what good was best for him to do, and what evil to forlet.

  2. 2.

    To forget.

    苏格兰 英国 方言 及物

词源

From Middle English forleten (“forsake, reject, renounce, omit, lose, forgive”), from Old English forlǣtan (“to leave”), from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną (“to leave, dismiss”), equivalent to for- + let. Cognate with Scots forleet (“to forsake, abandon”), Saterland Frisian ferläite (“to forlet, abandon”), West Frisian forlitte (“to forlet”), Dutch verlaten (“to desert, abandon”), German verlassen (“to leave”), Swedish förlåta (“to excuse, forgive, remit”).

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