The ways of the world forwent he in nowise Then, whenas Hunlafing the light of the battle, The best of all bills, did into his breast, Whereof mid the Eotens were the edges well knowen.
So forwent he the glory, 1470 The fair fame of valour.
So ist nuforwent mirie dale, So is there now changed merry (pleasant) dale.
China forwent her restless and gigantic designs, and took to quietude and grave consideration.
Rome did not become civilized in any decent sense: she simply forwent Roman virtues and replaced them with Greek vices; and made of these, not the vices of a degenerate culture, but the piggishness of cultureless boors.
What, you are he, then, had Pompilia once And so forwent her?
Forwent his happy dance and the glad ray, Died half an hour the sooner and was dust.
I am blamed that I forwent A way to make my husband's favor come.
But it was a vain thing, and I speedily forwentthe thought of it.
Of a labourer who found a man with his wife, and forwent his revenge for a certain quantity of wheat, but his wife insisted that he should complete the work he had begun.
United States, they had paid for the railways with their own capital and only forwent their 'use'.
It was no more income but rather English capital which was used to push on consumption: the English themselves bought and paid for their own goods which they sent to America, and thereby merely forwent the pleasure of using these goods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forwent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
