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
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
Eyes forspent with vigil, faint and reeling, Find at last my comfort, and are blest, Not with rapturous light of life's revealing - Nay, but rest.
From A Century of Roundels by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
After him came spurring hard A gentleman, almost forspent with speed, That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse.
From King Henry IV, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William
We saw her, forspent, crawl into the thicket to sleep.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
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