What's the difference between lorn and lovelorn?

Lorn


Definition:

  • (a.) Lost; undone; ruined.
  • (a.) Forsaken; abandoned; solitary; bereft; as, a lone, lorn woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
  • (2) But given that Che followed his fringe run with a year where he got hired first by Jon Stewart for The Daily Show, and then by Lorne Michaels to become a cast member on Saturday Night Live (he had originally been one of the show’s writers), it’s possible that those judges knew less about comedy than they thought.
  • (3) Louis (Herbert Lorn) is the dangerously unassimilated foreigner.
  • (4) Lorne Craner, president of IRI, said that Egyptian officials quizzed about the no-fly policy had told the institute that they were still completing their investigations following the December raids and that they might "go to trial soon".
  • (5) He has had access to Pete Cowan for coaching advice at home, moreover, and it was that link which provided him with his caddie for the week, Lorne Duncan, who has more than 30 years' experience on the European Tour.
  • (6) Lorne Campbell, artistic director, Northern Stage In 2005, when I was an assistant director at the Traverse, my fringe consisted of chewing my way through a very long list of shows that needed to be seen "just in case".
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lorning Cornish shouts after Baltimore authorities released a report on the death of Freddie Gray while police in riot gear stand guard.
  • (8) Angry citizens, for their part, must acknowledge the dangers police face on the job, the president said at an interfaith memorial service for Michael Smith, Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Patrick Zamarripa and Brent Thompson, the officers killed by Micah Johnson at a rally against police violence on Thursday night .
  • (9) Easdale, off Seil Island, Argyll & Bute Size: 0.08sq miles In its mid-19th century heyday, this apparently inconsequential island in the Sound of Lorn had a population of around 450 and was exporting up to 19m roofing slates every year, laying the basis for the boast that Easdale's was "the slate that roofed the world".
  • (10) That brought them to the attention of legendary Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels.
  • (11) Information was gathered from patients presenting to the surf club, hospital, surgery and pharmacy with injuries sustained on or around Lorne beach, Victoria.
  • (12) Having Trump not just make a guest appearance but actually host the show validates that SNL, executive producer Lorne Michaels, NBCUniversal and its sponsors don’t really care at all about “respect and dignity for all people”.
  • (13) He has found out the lines that seem to dignify his own love-lorn feelings.
  • (14) Michael Lorne, a Rastafarian lawyer, has vowed not to include Jamaican universities in plans for cultivation and research, for fear that middlemen will swipe the profits.
  • (15) The Congressional Hispanic Caucus calls upon NBCUniversal, Broadway Video, and SNL Executive Producer Lorne Michaels to disinvite Mr Trump from hosting Saturday Night Live because racism is not funny.” Representative Xavier Becerra, who is chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, is among the politicians who have criticised Trump’s appearance.

Lovelorn


Definition:

  • (a.) Forsaken by one's love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was not the familiar banshee scream of a lovelorn vixen, but a rapid, almost mechanical, yipping.
  • (2) Inglis said the campaign was much more integrated across a range of different media than last year's effort which featured lovelorn snowmen.
  • (3) Others favour the luxuriant sleaze of Baby Wants To Ride or 1989's gorgeous, lovelorn Tears .
  • (4) Among other legends, the lovelorn poet Sappho is said to have ended her life here.
  • (5) But then it's a quality that his fans, particularly women of a certain age who first came across him nearly 30 years ago as lovelorn Lloyd Dobler, the hero of Say Anything , will recognise instantly – a hang-dog odd-man-outness which accompanies expectations of a John Cusack movie to this day.
  • (6) Ben Whishaw could not be more opposite.” The emergence of actors like Whishaw, who played the lovelorn John Keats in Jane Campion’s Bright Star , Sebastian Flyte in the 2008 adaptation of Brideshead Revisited , and appeared in the BBC series London Spy , poses a dilemma for film-makers.
  • (7) "I've never felt quite like this," sings Dilla, like a lovelorn robot.
  • (8) Yet he appears not much older than lovelorn Sam, the precocious child in 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom.
  • (9) The band's most arresting tracks, for me, are the lovelorn ones, such as White Blank Page – and what effect will a happy marriage have on that?
  • (10) Here are some of the things we learned from this year’s awards: Drunk Ed Sheeran is more fun than sober Ed Sheeran As with when Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood hosted the Brits, the reason for pairing meek and lovelorn acoustic troubadour Ed Sheeran with the fiery, unpredictable Ruby Rose was the hilarity of juxtaposition .
  • (11) Tracks is her third UK release in nine weeks: February saw her wreaking havoc as a brattish vampire in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, while earlier this month she all but destroyed a lovelorn Jesse Eisenberg in Richard Ayoade's The Double.
  • (12) But most fat women in media didn’t even get that far – most were lovelorn, vulgar comic relief, their sexuality spun as either a menace or a joke.
  • (13) In TMNT Arnett plays Vern Fenwick, hapless and lovelorn cameraman to intrepid city desk reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox), who barely notices his knock-kneed crush as they happen upon the titular subterranean superheroes.
  • (14) Despite its visual style, his first feature film, The Hunger (1982), which starred David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve as lovelorn vampires, failed to make much of an impression with critics.
  • (15) In principle, it's an amusingly odd choice to dress up as a reindeer, and depict its lovelorn life.
  • (16) It won't translate..." You're most famous for playing the lovelorn Molly in the BBC drama Sherlock .

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