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lornest

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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
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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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