How to pronounce“forlorn”in English
for Andy Burnham in the sort of oh, well, I tried, but those terrible people blocked me. And forevermore he could become the vessel into which people's
forlorn hopes of a new softer left Labour are poured into forevermore. I mean, some you know, it's just thinking a
little about the David Miliband situation. Yes, he fought Ed Miliband for the leadership and yes, he lost by a whisker. But ever since he lost by a
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Definitions of “forlorn”
Abandoned, deserted, left behind.
“For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.”
Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
“For here forlorn and loſt I tread, / With fainting ſteps and ſlow; / Where wilds immeaſurably ſpread, / Seem lengthening as I go.”
A forlorn hope.
“The Regiment being drawn up into the former Figure, they may proceed to Firings upon it, firſt let the Forlorns fire five or six times over, being commanded by the eldeſt Captains Lieutenant, who is to be aſſiſted by a couple of able Serjeants; after let him wheel off to the right and left, and bring them down in the Reer of the Pikes. Then let the ſecond Captains Lieutenant being aſſiſted by two Serjeants lead up the reſerves by the out-ſide of the Pikes, at ſuch time when the Forlorns begin to come off, […]”
A member of a forlorn hope.
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