lapsed
/læpst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of lapse
adj
Example Sentences
- "The royal charities on Maunday Thursday, are really a portion of an otherwise lapsed custom, which recalled the action of our Lord on the day before His Crucifixion."
- "...satisfy the Doubtful, confirm the Wavering, recover the Lapsed, and be useful to all according to their several Circumstances and Conditions."
- "One of them is a lapsed Catholic; the other is in no doubt of what to do, as he has suffered much on account of his adherence to Christianity."
- "My mother knew that I was a lapsed Republican, but did not dream of the depth to which I had fallen."
- "The only legitimate claimants must be, Albert of Austria, son of the sister of the last duke John; and the emperor Sigsmund, who might consider this part of Bavaria as a lapsed fief: that in this quality he had given the investiture of it to his son-in-law"
Usage
Inflected Forms
more lapsed (comparative)
most lapsed (superlative)