Meaning of forlet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To abandon; give up; leave; leave behind; forsake; desert; neglect.
   UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive
2. To forget.
   Scotland, UK, dialectal, transitive

Examples

“to forlet your sins”

“I soothly quoth, then say⟳, to you, for that each such, he that forlets wife his, be-out unclean lust doing forth-lying thing, doeth (works) he doeth the same to sin, …”

“But, by my soul, I dare well swear⟳ His wretched life he shall forlet [...]”

“… whether his mind⟳ and his soul were deadly and perishing, or it were aye living and eternal; and again, about his good, what it was, and what good was best for him to do, and what evil to forlet.”

“[...] and then, if upon mature deliberation, when our mind⟳ is staid and our senses settled, the thing appear⟳ to be naught, we are to hate⟳ and abhor it, and in no wise either to forlet and put⟳ off, or altogether to omit and forbear correction, like⟳ as they refuse⟳ meats who have⟳ no stomach nor appetite to eat⟳.”

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