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forshake en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English forschaken, equivalent to for- + shake. Likely influenced by or mistaken as an error for forsake.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, rare) To shake off; rid or free oneself from.
   • […] to forshake his Christian faith and to go to other people's religion. Mabior Riny Riak said he felt sorry to ^([sic]) his relatives for not knowing that Islam is a universal religion and that it is not confined to a particular race or people […] 2006, Abdalla Keri Wani, Islam in Southern Sudan: Its Impact, Past, Present and Future, page 133:
   • The Mizos in general, and the Luseis in particular, have forshaken their traditional religion in favour of Christianity. 1996, C. Nunthara, Mizoram: Society and Polity, page 35:
   • Then her tussles forshook to the ground. 2022, John Karelis, The Legend Of The Gorilla 2: Bringing The Silver-Back:
   • It is so long since we forshook the usurped power of the bishop of Rome that these things seem very strange […] 2019, Jeremy Black, England in the Age of Shakespeare, page 284:
   • It is only at Carignano that she can forshake the prescribed role of wife/mother, a domesticated, servile woman. 2004, Mithilesh K. Pandey, Writing the Female: Akademi Awarded Novels in English:
   • But meeting in a land foreign to almost everybody, they lived together like one family and one people forshaking their various speeches, habits, everything. 1995, Sudhāṃśu Śekhara Tuṅga, Bengali and Other Related Dialects of South Assam, page 30:

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