fordone

[ fawr-duhn ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. exhausted with fatigue.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fordone¹

First recorded in 1580–90; past participle of fordo

Example Sentences

She looked desperately weary and fordone—she clasped and unclasped her hands continually.

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Horses alike and riders were travel-tainted and fordone.

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Now many a man will think and inquire, whence the devil came? be it, therefore, known to him that God created as a great angel him who is now the devil: but God did not create him as the devil: but when he was wholly fordone and guilty towards God, through his great haughtiness and enmity, then became he changed to the devil, who before was created a great angel.

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The dead youth, who was borne in sight of many men, betokens every sinful man who in the inward man is fordone with deadly sins, and his evilness is known to men.

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God the Father made mankind and all creatures through the Son; and again, when we were fordone, he sent that same Son for our redemption.

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Related Words

• derelict
• dilapidated