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lorn

  [lawrn]
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–adjective
1. forsaken, desolate, bereft, or forlorn.
2. Archaic. lost, ruined, or undone.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME; OE loren, ptp. of -lēosan to lose (recorded in compounds)

Related forms:
lornness, noun

Lorne

  [lawrn]
–noun
Firth of, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, on the W coast of Scotland, leading NE to the Caledonian Canal.
Also, Lorn.
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lorn   (lôrn)   
adj.  Bereft; forlorn.

[Middle English, from Old English -loren, past participle of -lēosan, to lose (as in forlēosan, to lose); see leu- in Indo-European roots.]
Lorne also Lorn   (lôrn)   
An inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the western coast of Scotland between Mull Island and the mainland.
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Word Origin & History

lorn 
"lost, ruined" (archaic), c.1300, from O.E. loren, pp. of leosan "to lose" (see lose).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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