Verb (used with object), : She has forsaken her country for an island in the South Pacific.    From Dictionary.com. 

We have another instance of the faith of Moses, namely, in forsaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference

Yet the heathen gods are false gods; whereas Israel, in forsaking Me for other gods, forsake their "glory" for unprofitable idols.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Though He seems, in forsaking me, to be as one dead, He now truly "liveth" in heaven; hereafter He shall appear also above the dust of earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

But apart from physical inconvenience, the idea of forsaking their homes and husbands was too ridiculous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

The greater were God's favors to them from the first, the fouler was their ingratitude in forsaking Him (Jer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

It will be remembered that at a somewhat similar crisis in life young Robert Burns entertained seriously the idea of forsaking Scotland for the West Indies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference

And as this must be the spring of it, so there is another stream that will certainly flow from the ingenuous confession of our sins that is, a forsaking of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

This may involve tough choices, such as forsaking a family vacation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ways to Make Saving a Habit] Reference

The main difference is that is he is not married, has not promised to be faithful to one woman, therefore "forsaking" all others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laura Trice: What Tiger Woods Can Learn From George Clooney: Why Marry and Have Kids?] Reference

Not once did he contemplate entirely forsaking them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Hill House] Reference

He a sunnier clime forsaking for the "dark and bloody ground,".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference

So Peter, in forsaking his old boat and net, was approved as much before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.] Reference

Canst thou be true to her, forsaking all, follow where her great spirit leads?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

Again and again, this constant forsaking: my eyes open, I find you do not follow.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Myth’] Reference

If I vote for Barack, I am forsaking women and any hope of gender equality — ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forced to Choose Under Pressure] Reference

She'd been at it for weeks, forsaking sleep to sift through thousands of legal documents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fannie, Freddie, Big Banks Helping Lawyers Make Millions Pushing Families Out Of Their Homes] Reference

They pray for mercy, acknowledging that they are justly punished for forsaking true wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

Wherefore forsaking the ceremonies of their fathers, which consisted in the worship of many gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 18: Judith The Challoner Revision] Reference

My father's drunkenness, I could stand that, and Mammy's forsaking us, as I thought -- that, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

When "feminist" friends hear that I am taking my husband's name, they act as if I'm forsaking "our" cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm Not Sick, I'm Just In Love] Reference

It was because the light was forsaking her, and spreading itself over the room, that she grew so thin and pale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

With every atrocity, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

He knew not what to do; his senses were fast forsaking him; Heaven seemed to have deserted him for his incredulity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference

David had more than once wrung her very soul by dark hints of self-destruction in the event of her ever forsaking him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference

"Living a blameless life, to be sure, while attending to the outer forms; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn] Reference

Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed: but comforting one anther, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

It would be like forsaking the farmer's market, with all its tasty and fresh organic produce, in favor of one giant digitalWal-Mart.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Dougherty: The Clock Is Running Out on Net Neutrality] Reference

Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed: but comforting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 65: Hebrews The Challoner Revision] Reference

It would be like forsaking the farmer's market, with all its tasty and fresh organic produce, in favor of one giant digitalÂWal-Mart.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Dougherty: The Clock Is Running Out on Net Neutrality] Reference

III. king of the Scots, who, forsaking his crown and the world, entered himself among the Culdees, to religious ma at St. Andrew's, in 946.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference