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Hamlet vocabulary
40 archaic vocabulary words
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fordo
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Definition:to destroy; to ruin; to exhaust
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Alas! thou fell Mars, and alas! Juno,
Thus hath your ire our lineage all fordo
Save only me, and wretched Palamon,
That Theseus martyreth in prison.
Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems
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This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Full she drad that God the Wreaker all mankind would fordo with water for his evil sins.
James Joyce. Ulysses (1922)
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