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Relinquish   /rɪlˈɪŋkwɪʃ/  /rilˈɪŋkwɪʃ/   Listen
verb
Relinquish  v. t.  (past & past part. relinquished; pres. part. relinquishing)  
1.
To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit. "We ought to relinquish such rites." "They placed Irish tenants upon the lands relinquished by the English."
2.
To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.
Synonyms: To resign; leave; quit; forsake; abandon; desert; renounce; forego. See Resign.





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"Relinquish" Quotes from Famous Books



... professional housekeepers. How the two functions are to be combined it is a little difficult to see, but apparently women are to retain a profession as a stand-by in case they fail to marry or to remain married. At the same time Mr. BENNETT takes it for granted that woman will never relinquish her position as a charmer of man, or even the use of cosmetics and expensive lingerie. Speaking neither as a novelist nor as a philosopher, I cannot help feeling that Mr. BENNETT is too apt to consider ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, October 6, 1920 • Various
... so agreeable that his visit stood out in considerable relief from the monotony of my daily commonplace. As I learned from authentic sources, he was somewhat distinguished in his own region for fervor and eloquence in the pulpit, but was now compelled to relinquish it temporarily for the purpose of renovating his impaired health by an extensive tour in Europe. Promising to dine with me, he took up his bundle ...
— Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... he grew up in life, this became a habit with him, which he did not relinquish even when he had attained the age of ninety years. His diaries all contain either at the beginning or the end of the record of his day's work, some beautiful lines of poetry referring to moral or literary subjects: ...
— Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I • Sir Moses Montefiore
... he found that he had been cut off without a dollar; all had been left to Dorothy, without reserve or condition, save one, and that condition was a most important one: that she should marry Kendal six months after his decease, or relinquish the fortune ...
— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey
... them. Bobs! In her bewildered terror she scarcely realized for a moment what he meant; then she raised her whip and cut with all her strength at the hand that held the rein. He gave a sharp yell of pain as the stinging whalebone caught him, but he did not relinquish his grasp, and Norah struck at him again and again, half blindly in the darkness, but always with the strength of desperation. It could not last long—the struggle was too pitifully unequal. It was only a minute before he had wrested the whip from her ...
— Mates at Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce


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