单词 | discardment |
释义 | discardmentn. The action of discarding; rejection, abandonment; an instance of this. Also: something which has been discarded. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun] everting1568 deposition1577 discarding1600 excussion1607 dispatch1608 reposition1617 absolution1655 depositing1667 discardment1713 discardurea1762 cashiering1826 dropping1859 discard1906 junking1911 shedding1945 load-shedding1947 1713 Hist. Paradise vii. 156 To my Apprehension, the Discardment of our first Parents was with great Solemnity of Shame. 1787 New Novelist's Mag. 2 74/1 He had always been kept in ignorance as to the cause of his discardment. 1844 N. Brit. Rev. 1 395 Their discardment by the Hindús as religious authorities. 1915 M. J. H. Skrine Billie's Mother ii. xiv. 176 A parcel with the discardments and some pairs of red and blue stockings went to the station. 1954 Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. 10 430 Death is marked by the application of the death-names, and life is marked by their discardment in favor of the personal name. 2008 New Civil Engineer (Nexis) 2 Apr. Space had become an issue,..and a programme of discardments began, beginning with books on topography and travel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1713 |
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