'forsaking' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to mean "to abandon or leave something behind" or "to give up something voluntarily". For example, "I decided to forsake my life of luxury in order to pursue my dream of being a writer."
Fanatical defenders of religion start out attacking contemporary secular culture; it's no surprise when they end up forsaking any meaningful religious experience.
Inspired by that letter from philosophy lecturer John Foster, I've decided my 10% carbon emissions cut in 2010 would include the challenge of forsaking all new clothes for a year.
Consumers are flocking to the posh brands and forsaking the more mundane executive models made by the likes of GM, Ford or Toyota.
"We're hunted and targeted," explains a self-pitying MP on Hamas's parliamentary ethics committee, who recently spent $28,000 on a new car with the help of a $12,000 loan from the movement.Pure-minded Islamists accuse Hamas of forsaking its official name the Islamic Resistance Movement for the pursuit of power.
In the past decade, he has reinvented himself as "Money" Mayweather: a character drawing on Muhammad Ali's arrogance and confrontational style, but forsaking Mr Ali's political agenda in favour of the single-minded pursuit of lucre.
Forsaking wife and offspring, he was spending his Saturday among several hundred EDL "infidels", as they call themselves, outside the Queen pub in Bradford.
Under Mr Crow, the RMT stood out, forsaking protests for traditional industrial activism.
Last month business leaders complained that Republicans were forsaking their interests to pander to the religious right: the party's leaders were caving in to religious demands for sanctions on countries that persecute Christians, so jeopardising access to big markets such as China.
Start with Mr Sundaram's basic narrative that, forsaking a lucrative job in banking, he plunged into one of the world's most ignored countries with the improbable aim of rescuing it from obscurity and launching a career in journalism.
In a revealing recent speech in Washington DC, Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, said that the crisis was the result of forsaking "long-term gains for short-term gratification", by piling up debt and abandoning competitiveness.
But growing numbers of women are forsaking motherhood altogether.
