lorn
Americanadjective
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forsaken, desolate, bereft, or forlorn.
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Archaic. lost, ruined, or undone.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- lornness noun
Etymology
Origin of lorn
1250–1300; Middle English; Old English loren, past participle of -lēosan to lose (recorded in compounds)
Example Sentences
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Its in us lorn and loan and sheltering how it can.
From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2013
The lorn Petrouchka began to seem like a Slavic Jimmy Cagney.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Washington, D.C., a middle-aged major, lone & lorn in his furnished room, applied for a night job as a babysitter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Madlyn Rhue guest-stars as a lorn lovely who asks Agent Napoleon Solo for help.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole consciousness of my life lorn, my love lost, my hope quenched, my faith death-struck, swayed full and mighty above me in one sullen mass.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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