forspent
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of forspent
First recorded in 1550–70; past participle of Middle English forspenden, Old English forspendan; see for-, spend
Example Sentences
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Thus, Sidney Lanier: Into the woods my Blaster went, clean forspent, forspent; Into the woods my Master went, forspent with love and shame.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now lieth he in his halls forspent with grievous age, but other griefs are mine.
From The Iliad by Homer
Certainly there has been no tenderer poem written about the Master than the lines written during Lanier's last year: — Into the woods my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent.
From A Biography of Sidney Lanier by Edwin Mims
The Ox hath hushed his voyce and bent Trewe eyes of Pitty ore the Mow, And on his lovelie Neck, forspent, The Blessed layes her Browe.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
The weary and all forspent twopenny postman sinks beneath a load of delicate embarrassments, not his own.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
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