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語源

From Middle English forleten (“forsake, reject, renounce, omit, lose, forgive”), from 古期英語 forlǣtan (“to leave”), from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną (“to leave, dismiss”), equivalent to for- +‎ let. Cognate with Scots forleet (“to forsake, abandon”), Saterland Frisian ferläite (“to forlet, abandon”), West Frisian forlitte (“to forlet”), Dutch verlaten (“to desert, abandon”), German verlassen (“to leave”), Swedish förlåta (“to excuse, forgive, remit”).

動詞

forlet (三人称単数 現在形 forlets, 現在分詞 forletting, 過去形および過去分詞形 forlet)

1. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal) To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect. [10th-17th c.]

   to forlet your sins

   • 1807, The Gothic Gospel of saint Matthew:

     I soothly quoth, then say, to you, for that each such, he that forlets wife his, be-out unclean lust doing forth-lying thing, doeth (works) he doeth the same to sin, [...]

   • 1834, Samuel Astley Dunham, A History of Europe During the Middle Ages - Volume 4:

     But, by my soul, I dare well swear His wretched life he shall forlet [...]