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Definition of Bereft
1. Adjective. Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love.
2. Adjective. Sorrowful through loss or deprivation. "Bereft of hope"
Definition of Bereft
1. Verb. (past of bereave) ¹
2. Adjective. (of a person) pained by the loss of someone ¹
3. Adjective. deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bereft
1. bereave [v] - See also: bereave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bereft
Literary usage of Bereft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain by John Bowring (1824)
"SHE left me on the mountain's side, Alas! she left: Where shall I go, of her
bereft ? She saw me mourning, yet she fled; She wended round the mountain's ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... held from flight The panting steeds of both their lords bereft. But that his
cry stung Glaucus to the quick ; Whose heart was troubled that he could not ..."
3. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"For that the unspotted soul of our Jesus was really and actually separated from
his body, that his flesh was bereft of natural life by the secession of that ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The word does not seem to be used very frequently any more. bereaved, bereft The
variant past participles of bereave—bereaved and bereft—have developed ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... and his professional associates here, feeling like a family bereft of its
head, have expressed the sense of their bereavement in fitting resolutions; ..."
6. English Reader by Lindley Murray (1840)
"4 Of rest was Noah's dove bereft, When with impatient wing she left That safe
retreat, the ark; Giving her vain excursion o?et, The disappointed bird once ..."
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