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Relegation   Listen
noun
Relegation  n.  The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.






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"Relegation" Quotes from Famous Books



... has enjoyed the light and graceful poetry of Ovid, has sighed over the relegation of that city man to the barbarous horrors of the Black Sea. As Gibbon exquisitely phrases it: "The tender Ovid, after a youth spent in the enjoyment of wealth and luxury, was condemned to a hopeless exile on the frozen banks of the Danube, where he was exposed ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes

... than to being itself. It was this epistemological principle upon which Berkeley founded his empirical idealism. Believing knowledge to consist essentially in perception, and believing perception to be subjective, he had to choose between the relegation of being to a region inaccessible to knowledge, and the definition of being in terms of subjectivity. To avoid scepticism he accepted the latter alternative. But among the Greeks with whom this theory of perception ...
— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry

... future of the submarine is more dubious. Always it will be a potent weapon of war. It may indeed force the relegation of dreadnoughts to the scrap heap. But of its peaceful services there is more doubt. That it can be made a cargo carrier is unquestionably true. But to what good? There is no intelligent reason for carrying ...
— Aircraft and Submarines - The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day - Uses of War's Newest Weapons • Willis J. Abbot



Words linked to "Relegation" :   deputation, devolution, authorization, proscription, categorization, compartmentalization, classification, banishment, delegation, authorisation, categorisation, compartmentalisation, delegating, empowerment, assortment, devolvement, relegating, relegate



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