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forspent en · ADJ

Etymology

From the past participle of forspend, equivalent to for- + spent.

Meanings

1. (archaic, poetic) exhausted
   • Messire Gawain taketh it, for his own was broken short, and departeth from the knight and commendeth him to God. And he goeth his way a great pace, and Messire Gawain also goeth amidst the forest, and full weary is he and forspent with travail. 1898, Unknown, High History of the Holy Graal:
   • IV. But he felt no hunger, and unheeded Left the wine, and eager for the rest Which his limbs, forspent with travel, needed, On the couch he laid him, still undress'd. 1844, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI.:

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