forspent
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the past participle of forspend, equivalent to for- + spent.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Adjective[edit]
forspent (comparative more forspent, superlative most forspent)
- (archaic, poetic) exhausted
- 1844, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI.[1]:
- IV. But he felt no hunger, and unheeded Left the wine, and eager for the rest Which his limbs, forspent with travel, needed, On the couch he laid him, still undress'd.
- 1898, Unknown, High History of the Holy Graal[2]:
- Messire Gawain taketh it, for his own was broken short, and departeth from the knight and commendeth him to God. And he goeth his way a great pace, and Messire Gawain also goeth amidst the forest, and full weary is he and forspent with travail.