Crossword clues for forsaken
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forsake \For*sake"\, v. t. [imp. Forsook; p. p. Forsaken; p. pr. & vb. n. Forsaking.] [AS. forsacan to oppose, refuse; for- + sacan to contend, strive; akin to Goth. sakan. See For-, and Sake.]
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To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments.
--Ps. lxxxix. 30. -
To renounce; to reject; to refuse.
If you forsake the offer of their love.
--Shak.Syn: To abandon; quit; desert; fail; relinquish; give up; renounce; reject. See Abandon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., past participle adjective from forsake. Related: Forsakenly.\n
Wiktionary
1 deserted; abandoned 2 helpless v
(past participle of forsake English)
WordNet
adj. left entirely; "forsaken slopes where children once played" [ant: unforsaken]
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Wikipedia
Forsaken or The Forsaken may refer to:
In gaming:
- Forsaken (video game), a first person shooting video game similar to Descent
- Forsaken (series), a series of World of Warcraft machinima produced by Edgeworks Entertainment
- The Forsaken, an undead faction in the Warcraft series of games
- Werewolf: The Forsaken, a role-playing game published by White Wolf, Inc
In fiction:
- Forsaken (Wheel of Time), a group of characters from the Wheel of Time fantasy series
- The Forsaken Inn, a fictional inn from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe
In TV and film:
- "Forsaken" (Stargate SG-1), the eighteenth episode of the sixth season of Stargate SG-1
- "The Forsaken" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), the seventeenth episode of the first season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- The Forsaken (2001 film), a 2001 horror/thriller film starring Brendan Fehr and Kerr Smith
- The Prophecy: Forsaken, the latest film in The Prophecy series
- Forsaken (2015 film), the 2015 western-drama film starring the Sutherlands, father-and-son Kiefer and Donald Sutherland
In music:
- The Forsaken (album), an album by the black metal band Antestor
- Forsaken (album), an album by the Irish alternative rock band Hail The Ghost
- "Forsaken" (song), a song by Dream Theater from the album Systematic Chaos
- "Forsaken", a song by As I Lay Dying from the album An Ocean Between Us
- "Forsaken", a song by VNV Nation from the album Praise the Fallen
- "Forsaken", a song by Within Temptation from the album The Silent Force
- "Forsaken", a song by David Draiman from the soundtrack Queen of the Damned
- "Forsaken", a song by Skillet from the album Collide
- "Forsaken", a song by Seeter from the album Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray
- The Forsaken, a Swedish Death metal and Thrash metal band
Forsaken is a 3D first-person shooter video game. The game was developed by Probe Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation and Iguana Entertainment for the Nintendo 64 and published by Acclaim Entertainment.
Similar to Descent, Forsaken had a strong following due to its " six degrees of freedom" gameplay, but suffered in popularity as compared to the conventional ground-based 3D first-person shooter games.
Forsaken is a 2016 Western drama film directed by Jon Cassar, from a screenplay by Brad Mirman. The film stars Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Brian Cox, Michael Wincott, Aaron Poole and Demi Moore. The film had its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on September 16, 2015. The film was released on February 19, 2016. Executive Producer on the film was Douglas Falconer.
Forsaken is the debut album from the Irish three piece alternative rock band, Hail The Ghost, which was released independently on March 6th 2015 on CD and Digital formats. The music on the album was described as "ambient, cinematic alternative rock" by lead singer and songwriter, Kieran O'Reilly.
Usage examples of "forsaken".
Aes Sedai here, the only Aes Sedai to have killed one of the Forsaken, much less two.
One of the Forsaken, trapped with her own overweening pride and held prisoner in the midst of Aes Sedai.
All he knew was that now, two hundred light-years from Carida, he was assigned to a detachment of storm-troopers, setting off for some forsaken planet.
Frenchmen who had rotted either in the hulks or in Dartmoor for eleven long years, forgotten and forsaken by their country, their families, and their friends.
O my Lord, who hath forgotten all else but Thee, and turned towards the Dayspring of Thy grace, who hath forsaken all save Thyself in the hope of drawing nigh unto Thy court.
But there the face of things was changed: Faenza at that time was under the rule of Astor Manfredi, a brave and handsome young man of eighteen, who, relying on the love of his subjects towards his family, had resolved on defending himself to the uttermost, although he had been forsaken by the Bentivagli, his near relatives, and by his allies, the Venetian and Florentines, who had not dared to send him any aid because of the affection felt towards Caesar by the King of France.
The lodges were forsaken, and the fivescore or so members of the tribe gave tongue to their folk-chants in honor of their guest.
It was a wild, forsaken road, now winding through dreary pine barrens, where the wind whispered mournfully, and now over log causeways, through long cypress swamps, the doleful trees rising out of the slimy, spongy ground, hung with long wreaths of funeral black moss, while ever and anon the loathsome form of the mocassin snake might be seen sliding among broken stumps and shattered branches that lay here and there, rotting in the water.
During his lifetime Aran made observations based on cycles of various multiples of forty years without discovering any indications that one of the Forsaken was loose in the world at those intervals.
Jews would still have been excluded from all civil and military offices, as well as from other privileges enjoyed by their christian brethren, in all probability they would have gradually forsaken their own unprofitable and obstinate infidelity, opened their eyes to the shining truths of the gospel, and joined their fellow-subjects in embracing the doctrines of Christianity.
Nearer and nearer it came, bobbing to the rise and fall of each wavelet with the last icy sunlight touching it up with reds and golds, nearer and nearer in the deadly hush of that forsaken region, and then at last so near it showed quite plainly on the purple water, a raft with some one sitting under a canopy.
The fields of maize gave way to great open spaces of tangled railway lines, factories, sidings, wayside platforms, some of them bombed and abandoned, and busily growing rosebay willow-herb like any forsaken station at home.
Others of them fained that they were forsaken, and seemed to flie and go awaie from them, whom dearely they did affect, and then was there running one after another with loud laughters, and effeminate criengs out, their faire tresses spredding downe ouer their snowie shoulders like threeds of gold, bound in laces of greene silke: Some loose after a Nymphish maner, others bounde vp in attyres of golde set with pearle.
Many one-time activists have forsaken politics entirely and turned to drugs.
This inland expanse of deserted straths, forsaken glens, and desolate lochs is where the impact of the Highland Clearances is most readily apparent.