forsunken
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Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]forsunken
- immersed
- 14th century, The Cloud of Unknowing, Chapter 44:
- sit full still, as it were in a sleeping device, all forsobbed and forsunken in sorrow.
- 14th century, The Cloud of Unknowing, Chapter 44:
Scots
[edit]Adjective
[edit]forsunken (comparative mair forsunken, superlative maist forsunken)
References
[edit]- Underhill, Evelyn (1922). The Cloud of Unknowing, Glossary.
- “forsunken” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.