forsakenness
- 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
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 Eliot, George
And stealing yet more blessed than taking?'—THAT was forsakenness!
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
A great feeling of forsakenness came over me.
From Pan by Hamsun, Knut
More dangerous have I found it among men than among animals:'—THAT was forsakenness!
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm