unrelinquished love

Definitions

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  • adjective Not relinquished.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ relinquished

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Examples

  • Like individual adults, nations can often be plagued by unrelinquished childhood fantasies that impede their maturation.

    Stephen Ducat: Confronting and Ending the Politics of Humiliation: Part 1, From the Warsaw Ghetto to Guantanamo Bay 2008

  • Rest, reflect, release the root blockage or unrelinquished pain or source, renew, then do what you really have been wanting to do with your life.

    The Rice Diet Solution Kitty Gurkin Rosati 2006

  • Rest, reflect, release the root blockage or unrelinquished pain or source, renew, then do what you really have been wanting to do with your life.

    The Rice Diet Solution Kitty Gurkin Rosati 2006

  • Rest, reflect, release the root blockage or unrelinquished pain or source, renew, then do what you really have been wanting to do with your life.

    The Rice Diet Solution Kitty Gurkin Rosati 2006

  • He seemed to have forgotten her, to be speaking instead to his own heart, as he said, very low, his voice touched with the tenderness of unrelinquished dreams: "To have had one hour -- just one perfect hour, and then the memory of that untarnished forever -- it would be enough."

    The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

  • He seemed to have forgotten her, to be speaking instead to his own heart, as he said, very low, his voice touched with the tenderness of unrelinquished dreams: "To have had one hour -- just one perfect hour, and then the memory of that untarnished forever -- it would be enough."

    The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

  • He seemed to have forgotten her, to be speaking instead to his own heart, as he said, very low, his voice touched with the tenderness of unrelinquished dreams: "To have had one hour -- just one perfect hour, and then the memory of that untarnished forever -- it would be enough."

    The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Susan Glaspell 1915

  • "That is not the reason," she said, raising her full eyes up at him over the unrelinquished hand.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • "That is not the reason," she said, raising her full eyes up at him over the unrelinquished hand.

    Sandra Belloni — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868

  • "That is not the reason," she said, raising her full eyes up at him over the unrelinquished hand.

    Sandra Belloni — Complete George Meredith 1868

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