Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Abandoned; forlorn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lost; undone.
- Forlorn; bereft; lonely: as, a lorn widow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Archaic Lost; undone; ruined.
- adjective Forsaken; abandoned; solitary; bereft.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
lost ,doomed - adjective archaic
abandoned ,lonely ,forlorn
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Dickens made Mrs. Gummidge very funny; but the Gummidge of real life is not merely a limp, "lorn" creature -- she is a woman who began by being unhealthily vain, and ends by being venomously malignant.
Side Lights James Runciman 1871
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And thou, lorn Wisdom's child, where'er thou art —
The Age Reviewed 2010
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Perhaps purchasing a gas or electric heater may deter the love lorn bucks in his area, if he doesn't take up huntin '.
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Wandering about like love-lorn Wildebeest and groping the female (and male) staff
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Perhaps purchasing a gas or electric heater may deter the love lorn bucks in his area, if he doesn't take up huntin '.
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I'm an angst-filled, love-lorn, chick on the edge of heterosexual desperation, but no matter how hard I try, I can't ever imagine partaking in vagina pie.
The DC Damsel: I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman: Reasons A-E Why I Didn't Either 2010
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Blessed with a backstory that directly invokes Vlad the Impaler, Oldman plays Dracula as a love-lorn mortal who declares war on God, thereby achieving damned immortality.
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Wilmington, N.C. I'm hanging out, waiting to hear John McCain deliver his latest new stump speech -- the text seems less toxic than recent efforts -- but I couldn't let Bill Kristol's latest advice to the vote-lorn column pass.
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I'm an angst-filled, love-lorn, chick on the edge of heterosexual desperation, but no matter how hard I try, I can't ever imagine partaking in vagina pie.
I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman: Reasons A-E Why I Didn't Either 2010
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I dug their love-lorn laced lyrics and the beats were amazing.
Alyssa Miele: Neon Indian, Miniature Tigers, Nite Jewel, the Dom and Prefuse 73 Rock Governor's Island Alyssa Miele 2010
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