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FORSA'KE, pret. forsook pp. forsaken. See Seek .

1. To quit or leave entirely to desert to abandon to depart from. Friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.

Forsake the foolish, and live. Proverbs 9 .

2. To abandon to renounce to reject.

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments - Psalms 89 .

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Psalms 37 .

3. To leave to withdraw from to fail. In anger, the color forsakes the cheeks. In severe trials, let not fortitude forsake you.
4. In scripture, God forsakes his people, when he withdraws his aid, or the light of his countenance.
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