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1680 Don Tomazo 102 A Dutch-woman..had so ravish'd, or rather infatuated him, upon the Leave-taking Night.

1769 E. Griffith Delicate Distress xi. in R. Griffith & E. Griffith Two Novels I. 46 She received a kind of leave-taking letter from him, excusing his perfidy, by her want of complaisance to his request.

1782 Earl of Malmesbury Let. 5 Apr. in Diaries & Corr. (1844) I. 496 The usual magnificent leave-taking presents are preparing.

1796 C. Smith Marchmont III. 256 Mrs. Glaston, without repeating the usual leave-taking compliments, departed.

1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life II. 182 The Captain urged Charles to deliver a final leavetaking letter to Emily.

1843 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Misc. 1 152 Mr. Maddock took us to the leave-taking ceremony at the Shalimar gardens.

1895 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 845/2 She had remembered that leave-taking scene at the Waverley Station.

1934 F. A. Yates John Florio iv. 68 He was the bearer of a leave-taking letter to Walsingham.

1937 Decisions Acting Comptroller Gen. U.S. 16 Index Digest 1190/2 Legal residence..determines employee's right to free transportation from post of duty to port..and return for leave-taking purposes.

1971 J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 29 Greeting and leave-taking formulae never precisely match across cultural borders.

1975 Brit. Jrnl. Industr. Med. 32 193 Atomic bomb survivors..took significantly more days of both annual leave and sick leave than did matched and paired control subjects. These differences in leave-taking patterns are considered to be due to behavioural causes.

2008 H. R. M. Pauwels Goddess as Role Model iii. 184 The leave-taking ceremony is dealt with rather swiftly.