单词 | abandoning |
释义 | abandoningn. 1. The action of relinquishing, giving up, or deserting; abandonment. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun] > forsaking forsakingc1320 abandoninga1500 abandonment1611 derelictiona1631 a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) l. 503 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 98 (MED) I holde it for no yifte..That one offereth, where þat it is forsake; ffor suche yifte is abandonnyng expresse [Fr. car le don est habandonné]. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin iv. 216 Some others..required to bee repayed by the Florentyns in abandoning of Pisa. 1640 Bp. J. Hall Christian Moderation ii. 52 It is more profitable to indure a scandall..then an abandoning of truth. 1651 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Sir Walter Rawleigh's Ghost 217 The Israelites returned again to their old vomit by abandoning of God. 1709 Duke of Marlborough Let. 3 Jan. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) II. 1185 They emediatly took their measures for the abandoning of Bruges. 1795 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 117 When thus the helm of justice is abandoned, an universal abandoning of all other posts will succeed. 1841 W. Allston Monaldi i. 27 It required not only the acquisition of a new taste, but the abandoning an old one. 1898 C. Bellaigue Portraits & Silhouettes of Musicians 89 Lyric action necessitated the abandoning of polyphony for the recitative of a single voice. 1939 Camera 58 281 A release amounts to the abandoning or giving up of a right or claim to a person against whom one might assert or exercise such right. 1971 Physics Bull. Sept. 517/2 Several factors..have led to the abandoning of the association of the pomeron with the f0. 2003 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 8 Feb. 2 New EU laws could make the problem worse, with the possible abandoning of old and useless cars. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > expulsion or driving out outputtinga1387 outcastinga1398 outing1440 deboutement1481 expulsiona1513 expulsing1528 expelling1532 expulsement1537 propulsation1578 expulsure1598 ejectment1602 outcast1602 abandoning1611 unroosting1615 propulsion1626 eliminationa1631 chucking-out1881 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xxxvi. 358/2 For the better ordering and administring of iustice, and for the abandoning of theeues. 1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 93 The abandoning of all those whom they call sectaries, for the detected falshood and ambition of som. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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