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relent
English
Etymology
From Middle English relenten, from Anglo-Norman relentir, from Latin re- + lentare (“to bend”), from lentus (“soft, pliant, slow”). Earliest recording dates to 1526.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???l?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
relent (plural relents)
- Stay; stop; delay.
- 2015, Mel Parson, First Sign of Trouble (song)
- There was no relent, my dear, as we pulled each other in.
- 2015, Mel Parson, First Sign of Trouble (song)
- (obsolete) A relenting.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
Derived terms
- relentless
Translations
Verb
relent (third-person singular simple present relents, present participle relenting, simple past and past participle relented)
- (intransitive) To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to soften in temper
- He had planned to ground his son for a month, but relented and decided to give him a stern lecture instead.
- 1989, Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
- I did, I suppose, hope that she might finally relent a little and make some conciliatory response or other.
- (intransitive) To slacken; to abate.
- We waited for the storm to relent before we ventured outside.
- He will not relent in his effort to reclaim his victory.
- (obsolete, transitive) To lessen, make less severe or intense.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv:
- But nothing might relent her hastie flight; / So deepe the deadly feare of that foule swaine / Was earst impressed in her gentle spright […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iv:
- (dated, intransitive, of substance) To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield, for example by dissolving or melting
- 1669, Robert Boyle, The History of Fluidity and Firmness
- [Salt of tartar] placed in a cellar will […] begin to relent.
- 1669, Robert Boyle, The History of Fluidity and Firmness
Translations
Adjective
relent (comparative more relent, superlative most relent)
- (obsolete) softhearted; yielding
References
French
Etymology
re- +? lent (“slow”, in the sense “lingering”)
Pronunciation
Noun
relent m (plural relents)
- lingering smell (usually bad); stench
- (figuratively) overtone
Further reading
- “relent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Verb
relent
- Alternative form of relenten
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forsake
English
Etymology
From Middle English forsaken (“to abandon, desert, repudiate, withdraw allegiance from; to deny, reject, shun; to betray; to divorce (a spouse); to disown; to be false to (one's nature, vows, etc.; to give up, renounce, surrender; to discard; to omit; to decline, refuse, reject; to avoid, escape; to cease, desist; to evade, neglect; to contradict, refute; to depart, leave; to become detached, separate”) [and other forms], from Old English forsacan (“to oppose; to give up, renounce; to decline, refuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”), from Proto-Germanic *fra- (prefix meaning ‘away, off’) + *sakan? (“to charge; to dispute”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh?g- (“to seek out”)). The English word can be analysed as for- +? sake, and is cognate with Saterland Frisian ferseeke (“to deny, refuse”), West Frisian fersaakje, Dutch verzaken (“to renounce, forsake”), Middle High German versachen (“to deny”), Danish forsage (“to give up”), Swedish försaka (“to be without, give up”), Norwegian forsake (“to give up, renounce”), Gothic ???????????????????? (sakan, “to quarrel; to rebuke”), .
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f???se?k/, /f?-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /f???se?k/
- Rhymes: -e?k
- Hyphenation: for?sake
Verb
forsake (third-person singular simple present forsakes, present participle forsaking, simple past forsook, past participle forsaken)
- (transitive) To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce (someone or something).
- (transitive, obsolete) To decline or refuse (something offered).
- (transitive, obsolete) To avoid or shun (someone or something).
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause disappointment to; to be insufficient for (someone or something).
Conjugation
- Archaic second-person singular simple present form: forsakest
- Archaic third-person singular simple present indicative form: forsaketh
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- forsake in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- forsake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- freakos
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- forsage
Etymology
Borrowed from Low German vorsaken, from Old Saxon farsakan, from Proto-West Germanic *frasakan (“to forsake, renounce”).
Verb
forsake (imperative forsak, present tense forsaker, simple past and past participle forsaka or forsaket, present participle forsakende)
- to give up, relinquish, forsake
- to denounce (the devil)
Derived terms
- forsakelse
References
- “forsake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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