fordone
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of fordone
First recorded in 1580–90; past participle of fordo
Example Sentences
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Lo, I'm a man fordone, in this world and the next, Except my spright of God be solaced and consoled!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by John Payne
So there he lay asleep, the steadfast goodly Odysseus, fordone with toil and drowsiness.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
Horses alike and riders were travel-tainted and fordone.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Who should have Priam's wealthy substance won, If watery Thetis had her child fordone?
From The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
And he wept and groaned and repeated the following verses: Indeed, it sufficeth the lover the time that his tears have run; As for affliction, of patience it hath him all fordone.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne
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