Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who relinquishes, leaves, or quits; one who renounces or gives up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who relinquishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
relinquishes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Giasone" (1649) is a comic farrago on the Jason-Medea-Golden Fleece tale, with Jason as a serial debaucher, Medea switching from jealous harpy to generous relinquisher of said Jason to her rival Isifile (both women have given birth to twins sired by Jason), and a bevy of clownish servants.
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"Giasone" (1649) is a comic farrago on the Jason-Medea-Golden Fleece tale, with Jason as a serial debaucher, Medea switching from jealous harpy to generous relinquisher of said Jason to her rival Isifile (both women have given birth to twins sired by Jason), and a bevy of clownish servants.
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B, houseman extraordinaire and the involuntary relinquisher of many a purse (not to mention the owner of her fourth IC), may not remember where she puts her glasses half the time - but she remembers my child's birthday and every medical detail of that birth.
On Memory naddywoman 2002
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