forshake
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But meeting in a land foreign to almost everybody, they lived together like one family and one people forshaking their various speeches, habits, everything."
- "The Mizos in general, and the Luseis in particular, have forshaken their traditional religion in favour of Christianity."
- "It is only at Carignano that she can forshake the prescribed role of wife/mother, a domesticated, servile woman."
- "[…] to forshake his Christian faith and to go to other people's religion. Mabior Riny Riak said he felt sorry to ^([sic]) his relatives for not knowing that Islam is a universal religion and that it is not confined to a particular race or people […]"
- "It is so long since we forshook the usurped power of the bishop of Rome that these things seem very strange […]"
- "Then her tussles forshook to the ground."
Etymology
From Middle English forschaken, equivalent to for- + shake. Likely influenced by or mistaken as an error for forsake.