Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: forsaking
IPA transcription: [fɔɹs'eɪkɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: abandonment, forsaking, desertion
    Meaning: the act of giving something up
  • Synonyms: forsaking, giving_up
    Meaning: the act of forsaking
Usage examples
  • I am not forsaking the Church.
  • Queens that seem bent on departing to the woods, may be confined in the same way, until the colony has given up all thoughts of forsaking its hive.
  • The king was a protestant, but no less the king; and not this man, but his parents, had sinned in forsaking the church--of which sin their offspring had now to bear the penalty, reaping the whirlwind sprung from the stormy seeds by them sown.
  • But Lilith was afraid of a reaction of rage and hatred in her father after the terror was removed; and Karl saw that he might thus be deprived of all further intercourse with Lilith, and all chance of softening the old man's heart towards him; while Lilith would not hear of forsaking him who had banished all the human race but herself.