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lorn

UK/lɔːn/ US/lɔɹn/ uncommon archaic obsolete

adjective

1.

pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment

  • “desolate and despairing”
  • “left forlorn”
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Origin

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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