"withsake" meaning in English

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          "text": "[...] there appears a reference to the body \"withsaking\" the devil (G47), a clear indication that there was a time in the life of the body when it was not so thorough a sinner.",
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        "(transitive, obsolete) To forsake; abandon; renounce; deny; refuse."
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