Abandonment
[ə'bændənm(ə)nt] or [ə'bændənmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away.
(noun.) the act of giving something up.
Checker: Wendy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
(n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
(n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
(n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
(n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon.
Checker: Roderick
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Abandoning, relinquishment, desertion, dereliction.[2]. Renunciation, surrender, cession, resignation, abnegation, abjuration, rejection, ABDICATION.
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Examples
- This abandonment of the second topic threw him on the third. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment--far worse than my abandonment--how it goaded me! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Accordingly, with the abandonment of all the other plans for reaching a base heretofore described, this new one was undertaken. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They picked up a great many prisoners and forced the abandonment of some property. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I then ordered the abandonment of Washington, but directed the holding of New Berne at all hazards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was a spasmodic abandonment about it as if, in allowing herself to utter the sound the woman's brain had authorized what it could not regulate. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He did not believe in final self-abandonment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was the complete abandonment of America by France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She remembered the abandonments of Roman licence, and her heart grew hot. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Otis