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 Payne, John
His sympathy was ever with the workingman and those who grind fordone at the wheel of labor.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Hubbard, Elbert
Also another gret armee and voiage fordone for defaut and lak of spedy payment this yere of Crist Gyen.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
His body fordone with age is by them considered to be full of the spirit of wisdom.
From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey
And now the demigod was merely Rudolph Musgrave again, and she was not afraid any longer, but only inexpressibly fordone.
From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch
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