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Word Meanings - RELINQUISHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of relinquishing.

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  • RESIGNATION
    1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
  • CONSIDERINGLY
    With consideration or deliberation.
  • FORSAKE
    1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30. 2. To renounce; to
  • FORSAKER
    One who forsakes or deserts.
  • DEFECTIONIST
    One who advocates or encourages defection.
  • RESPECT
    An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
  • YIELDABLE
    Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
  • RENUNCIATION
    Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right. Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment.
  • NOTICE
    1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
  • STUDY
    1. To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages. 2. To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature. Study thyself; what rank
  • RESPECTER
    One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
  • YIELDANCE
    1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
  • ESTEEMABLE
    Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
  • DERELICTION
    A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other
  • ATTENDMENT
    An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
  • YIELDING
    Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
  • NEGLECT
    1. Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy. To tell thee sadly,
  • YIELDER
    One who yields. Shak.
  • SURRENDEROR
    One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
  • REGARDLESS
    1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • UNCONSIDERED
    Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
  • YIELD
    pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
  • IMMIGRANT
    One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
  • MISOBSERVE
    To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
  • INCONSIDERATION
    Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
  • ESTEEM
    1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
  • MISESTEEM
    Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • FLAGRANT
    1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
  • DISESTEEMER
    One who disesteems. Boyle.
  • PRECESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
  • INTEGRANT
    Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss

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