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Definition of Forsakers
1. forsaker [n] - See also: forsaker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forsakers
Literary usage of Forsakers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"In 1639, in the epistle to the reader of his ' Triall of our Church forsakers,'
he writes : ' I have lived now by God's gratious dispensation above fifty ..."
2. Poets of To-day by Forrest B. Spaulding, New York Public Library (1915)
"... And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom
the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world forever, ..."
3. The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1891)
"THE SUCCESSORS OF AN UNSUCCESSFUL REVOLUTION — WHO IS TO BLAME, THE FORSAKEN ONE,
OB THE forsakers ? CHEERFULLY broke the winter sun over the streets of ..."
4. The Prophecies of Isaiah by Joseph Addison Alexander, John Eadie (1870)
"... and the forsakers of Jehovah, an equivalent expression to apostates in the
first clause, shall cease, come to an end, be totally destroyed. ..."
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