Lorn
adj, name, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 past participle of lese. form-of, obsolete, participle, past
- 1 Doomed; lost. obsolete
- 2 Abandoned, forlorn, lonely. archaic
"I loue thilke laſſe, (alas why do I loue:) / And am forlorne, (alas why am I lorne:) / Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue, / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne."
- 1 A suburb of Newcastle in the Maitland council area, New South Wales, Australia.
Example
More examples"I loue thilke laſſe, (alas why do I loue:) / And am forlorne, (alas why am I lorne:) / Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue, / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne."
Etymology
From Middle English lorn, loren, ilorn, iloren (past participle of lese, lesen (“to lose, be deprived of; to damn, doom to perdition”)), from Old English loren, ġeloren, from Proto-Germanic *galuzanaz, *luzanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *leusaną (“to lose”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut, sever; to separate; to loosen; to lose”). See further at lese.
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