forleten
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English forlǣtan (“to leave”), from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną.
Verb[edit]
forleten (third-person singular simple present forleteth, present participle forlette, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle forleten)
- To forsake, disregard, abandon; reject; intr. to be neglectful
- Þe same I will do þe Þat for-lete at my lare. — Man þus on rode ... Religious Lyrics of the XIVth Century, c1425
- To cease or neglect
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Whan he bigynneth any good werk, anon he wol forleten it and stynten.
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- To leave out, omit, pass over, overlook
- We shule tellen alle ure gultes..and no þing of þe soðe forlete. — Trinity Homilies, 1225
- To yield, to give up, resign; renounce; to put away; to release, let go, refrain from injuring
- Repentant folk that stynte for to synne and forlete synne er that synne forlete hem. — Chaucer, c1390
- To lose (something), be deprived of; forfeit; lose track of
- Moo renovelaunces of olde forleten aqueyntaunces. — Chaucer, c1380
- To give or forgive; allow, permit, grant
- Þam þe he her on worlde mucel to forlæteþ, mucel he to þam eft seceð. — Homilies in MS Bodley, 1175
- To let (blood); eliminate, to discharge; of a disease: to leave (someone).
- Þe king him gon to sweten, þat ufel hine gon forleten. — — Layamon's Brut, 1275
Related terms[edit]
- forleting, forletinge — scorn, contempt
- forletness, forletnesse — scorn, contempt
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Middle English Dictionary