Meaning of forweep | Babel Free

Definitions

To exhaust (oneself) with weeping; weep excessively; (of a vine) to bleed excessively.

intransitive, obsolete

Examples

“Till at the last an aged knight, / Which seem'd a man in greate thought, / Like as he set all thing at nought, / With visage and eyes all forwept, / And pale, as a man long unslept, […]”

“[…] Schooled the quadrilling Capriole's daring leaps Of delight so exquisite The beholder forweeps No sculpture captures Perfection's display So fluid the flesh is Confection in clay Haunting the memory Of horses on plain Cherished forever […]”

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