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Abandonment   /əbˈændənmənt/   Listen
Abandonment

noun
1.
The act of giving something up.  Synonyms: desertion, forsaking.
2.
Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility.  Synonyms: defection, desertion.
3.
The voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away.





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"Abandonment" Quotes from Famous Books



... The abandonment of Vinland by the Norse settlers may be compared with that of Gosnold's expedition to the same region near the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Gosnold was sent to plant an English colony in America, after the failure of Sir Walter Raleigh's settlement ...
— The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West • Robert E. Anderson
... in its deepest earnest; comedy is poetry in unlimited jest. Earnestness consists in the direction and convergence of all the powers of the soul to one aim, and in the voluntary restraint of its activity in consequence; the opposite, therefore, lies in the apparent abandonment of all definite aim or end, and in the removal of all bounds in the exercise of the mind,—attaining its real end, as an entire contrast, most perfectly, the greater the display is of intellectual wealth squandered in the ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge
... had gone she flung herself down on the moss by the spring and lay there in an utter abandonment of misery and desolation. ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... NEW IDEALS.—After the middle of the last century our attitude toward the dependent classes began to change rapidly. There was a gradual abandonment of almsgiving as the sole method of attacking dependency. Rising standards of conduct contributed to the development of new ideals, some of them now fairly well established, and some of them still in the formative process. The general content of these new ideals ...
— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson
... of his hesitation, and she replied substantially that there was no abandonment of the home-market idea; only the method of bringing it about had changed. She had come to believe in what was free and natural, not ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland


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