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Forlor(e, Forloir, p.p. and a. [ME. forlore (14th c.), southern var. of forloren Forlorn(e, adopted from Eng. poetry.] Lost; forlorn; destroyed.(a) a1500 Henr. Orph. 412 (A).
Bot for a luke my lady is forlore c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxv. 51.
Our glore forlore for to restore 1513 Doug. vi. v. 62.
All thir … Beyn helples folk, onerdit and forlor Ib. xiii. Prol. 114.
Quhat suld folk deym bot all my tyme forlore? c1552 Lynd. Mon. 475.
He sall … bryng ws all vnto his glore, The quhilk throw Adam bene forlore c1568 Lauder Minor P. i. 441.
Sennacherib … Wes put to flycht; syne, be his sone forlore [: schore](b) c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxii. 2.
Remembir … How that my ȝowth is done forloir 1535 Stewart 48651.
Scottismen war lossit and forloir, In the tua feildis tha faucht in of befoir a1568 Scott viii. 6.
Lat nocht … myleill hairt be forloir a1570-86 Maitl. F. clxxix. 46.
Thair is ane hell Quhair synneris all salbe forloir
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