Forlet

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect. UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive

    "to forlet your sins"

  2. 2
    To forget. Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive

Synonyms

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abandonabandonbeleavegive up

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"I soothly quoth, then say, to you, for that each such, he that forlets wife his, be-out unclean lust doing forth-lying thing, doeth (works) he doeth the same to sin, …"

Etymology

From Middle English forleten (“forsake, reject, renounce, omit, lose, forgive”), from Old English forlǣtan (“to leave”), from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną (“to leave, dismiss”), equivalent to for- + let. Cognate with Scots forleet (“to forsake, abandon”), Saterland Frisian ferläite (“to forlet, abandon”), West Frisian forlitte (“to forlet”), Dutch verlaten (“to desert, abandon”), German verlassen (“to leave”), Swedish förlåta (“to excuse, forgive, remit”).

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