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Meaning of forthink | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.
    impersonal, obsolete, transitive
  2. To regret; repent.
    obsolete, reflexive
  3. To regret.
    obsolete, transitive
  4. To repent, be sorry for.
    intransitive, obsolete
  5. To change one's mind about; to renounce.
    obsolete, transitive

Examples

“with hys swerd lyghtly he smote of hir hede before kynge Arthur / allas for shame sayd Arthur why haue ye done so / ye haue shamed me and al my Courte / for this was a lady that I was be holden to / and hyther she came vnder my sauf conduyte / I shalle neuer foryeue you that trespas / Sir said Balen me forthynketh of your displeasyr / for this same lady was the vntruest lady lyuynge”
“So cam he to the chamber dore / and wold haue entryd / And anone a voyce said to hym / Flee launcelot / and entre not / for thou oughtest not to doo hit / And yf thou entre / thou shalt forthynke hit / Thenne he withdrewe hym abak ryght heuy”
“Then gan he thinke, perforce with sword and targe / Her forth to fetch, and Proteus to constraine; / But soone he gan such folly to forthinke againe.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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