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relinquishment|rɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃmənt|
[f. prec. + -ment.]
The act of relinquishing; abandonment, giving up, surrender (of a practice, possession, attempt, etc.); † renunciation (of a person).
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iv. iii. §1 This is the thing they require in vs, the vtter relinquishment of all things popish. 1597Ibid. v. lxiii. §3 Two couenants there are.., the one concerning relinquishment of Satan. 1613–18Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 6 All..from Lucius to Vortigern (who succeeds this relinquishment) were Roman gouernours. 1680S. Mather Iren. 13 If any shall require and insist upon the relinquishment of it. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 584 From this relinquishment by the United States the following tracts of land are explicitly excepted. 1839James Louis XIV, III. 259 The disgrace which might attend the relinquishment of rights which he had asserted. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) I. App. 583 The relinquishment of Edinburgh by the English may have been less wholly an act of free will.
b. U.S. A tract of abandoned land.
1897Outing (U.S.) XXIX. 570/2 He had come late in the previous summer, bought a relinquishment up the river [etc.]. |