forsaken
verb
past participle of forsake.
forsakenness
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a word derived from
forsaken.
Example Sentences
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And I realized that his experience of it — a feeling of forsakenness, of arbitrary cruelty — would be essentially the same as the tree’s.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2017
A great feeling of forsakenness came over me.
From Pan by Knut Hamsun
With that thought, and before she had time to remember any reasons why it could not be true, came a new sense of forsakenness and disappointment.
From Adam Bede by George Eliot
It was upon that ground of forsakenness that treason spread its poison into our ranks.
From Select Speeches of Kossuth by Francis William Newman
And stealing yet more blessed than taking?'—THAT was forsakenness!
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
