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noun

Abandonment n.

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. "The abandonment of the independence of Europe."

(Mar. Law) 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.

(Com. Law)

(a)

The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.

(b)

The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

Careless freedom or ease; abandon. (R.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Abandonment" Quotes from Famous Books

... which the producer sometimes bears a portion of the tax, is more important: the case of duties on the produce of land or of mines. These might be so high as to diminish materially the demand for the produce, and compel the abandonment of some of the inferior qualities of land or mines. Supposing this to be the effect, the consumers, both in the country itself and in those which dealt with it, would obtain the produce at smaller cost; and a part only, instead of the whole, of the duty would fall ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill

... book itself confirms Maimonides's judgment. In accordance with the trend of the times there is noticeable in Ibn Zaddik an increase of Aristotelian influence, though of a turbid kind; a decided decrease, if not a complete abandonment, of the ideas of the Kalam, and a strong saturation of Neo-Platonic doctrine and point of view. It was the fashion to set the Kalam over against the philosophers to the disadvantage of the former, as being deficient in logical ...

— A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy • Isaac Husik

... just not to let him imagine there was any doubt on my mind, relative to his proceedings and their motives. We had scarcely sat down to table before he came in, as if by accident. This was a subterfuge. To what will not error and the abandonment of the passions submit? ...

— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft

... Macaulay's which has already been mentioned in these pages, further than to repeat that the poor Irish village in which Goldsmith was brought up, no doubt looked to him as charming as any Auburn, when he regarded it through the softening and beautifying mist of years. It is enough that the abandonment by a number of poor people of the homes in which they and theirs have lived their lives, is one of the most pathetic facts in our civilisation; and that out of the various circumstances surrounding this forced migration Goldsmith ...

— Goldsmith - English Men of Letters Series • William Black

... we held each other tightly for a moment. I saw come into her eyes that look which comes but once into the eyes of a maid, that look of ineffable self-surrender, of passionate abandonment. Life is niggard of such moments, yet can our lives be summed ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

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