forspent

American  

[fawr-spent] / fɔrˈspɛnt /

Also forespent

adjective

Archaic.

1. worn-out; exhausted.

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forspent British  

/ fɔːˈspɛnt /

adjective

1. archaic tired out; exhausted

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Etymology

Origin of forspent

First recorded in 1550–70; past participle of Middle English forspenden, Old English forspendan; see for-, spend

Example Sentences

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

Scarce with thy wife and Lakshmaṇ thou Hadst journeyed forth to keep the vow, When mourning for his son, forspent, To heavenly rest the monarch went.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

We saw her, forspent, crawl into the thicket to sleep.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

But he felt no hunger, and unheeded Left the wine, and eager for the rest Which his limbs, forspent with travel, needed, On the couch he laid him, still undress'd.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

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 Lamb, Charles