relinquentn.adj.
/rᵻˈlɪŋkw(ə)nt/, U.S. /rəˈlɪŋkwənt/ A. n. rare.
A person who gives up or abandons something, as a place or belief.In quot. 2004: a person who has been given up.
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a1665 J. Goodwin Christian Theol. (1836) (modernized text) xv. 360 All your instructions administered to the ignorant, reproofs and admonitions to relinquents.
1843 Union Jan. 464/1 In the cities and towns the relinquents will have the advantage, and the churches must very soon fall back into their possession.
2004 A. Higgins Bestiary ii. xxxviii. 355 I had not set eyes on this odd relinquent of mine since our mother's demise in Dun Laoghaire some years before.
B. adj.† 1. Relinquishing; (also) that is relinquished or given up. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > vanishing or disappearing
vanishing1434
formelting1606
disparent1617
evanishing1629
disappearing1646
deliquescent1815
relinquent1884
1846 W. Bolles Explanatory & Phonographic Pronouncing Dict. Eng. Lang. Relinquent, relinquishing.
1884 R. Buchanan Foxglove Manor II. xvi. 48 Knowing something of the relinquent fancies of young vestals, he rejected the idea.
2. Originally and chiefly U.S. Characterized by or relating to default or non-payment. Cf. delinquent adj. 2.
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1912 Hamilton (Ohio) Evening Jrnl. 16 Mar. 2/5 The auditor and treasurer sold the four lots to M. Simpson at a relinquent tax sale.
1933 Wall St. Jrnl. 16 Jan. 5/2 The bank which, without making new loans, continues to liquidate its relinquent notes.
1968 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 9 Mar. 15/2 Charges of no operator's license and relinquent registration.
2004 Africa News (Nexis) 21 Dec. The old licences of the relinquent banks will be withdrawn.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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