forleten

== Middle English == === Etymology === From Old English forlǣtan (“to leave”), from Proto-Germanic *fralētaną. === Verb === forleten (third-person singular simple present forleteth, present participle forlette, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle forleten) To forsake, disregard, abandon; reject; intr. to be neglectful Þe same I will do þe Þat for-lete at my lare. — Man þus on rode ... Religious Lyrics of the XIVth Century, c1425 To cease or neglect To leave out, omit, pass over, overlook We shule tellen alle ure gultes..and no þing of þe soðe forlete. — Trinity Homilies, 1225 To yield, to give up, resign; renounce; to put away; to release, let go, refrain from injuring Repentant folk that stynte for to synne and forlete synne er that synne forlete hem. — Chaucer, c1390 To lose (something), be deprived of; forfeit; lose track of Moo renovelaunces of olde forleten aqueyntaunces. — Chaucer, c1380 To give or forgive; allow, permit, grant Þam þe he her on worlde mucel to forlæteþ, mucel he to þam eft seceð. — Homilies in MS Bodley, 1175 To let (blood); eliminate, to discharge; of a disease: to leave (someone). Þe king him gon to sweten, þat ufel hine gon forleten. — — Layamon's Brut, 1275 ==== Related terms ==== forleting, forletinge — scorn, contempt forletness, forletnesse — scorn, contempt ==== Descendants ==== English: forlet Scots: forleet ==== References ==== Middle English Dictionary