Sentence example with the word 'relinquishment'

relinquishment

abandonment, breakoff, cession, deposal, dropping out, giving in, recedence, retiral, superannuation, voluntary resignation

Definition n. a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.

Last update: November 3, 2015


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After preaching four years in New York and New Hampshire, he became, in April 1773, pastor of the Second church at Franklin (until 1778 a part of Wrentham, Massachusetts), of which he remained in charge until May 1827, when failing health compelled his relinquishment of active ministerial cares.   [Please select]

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The terms of the treaty provided, first, for the relinquishment of sovereignty over Cuba by Spain.   [Please select]

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Elizabeth was a Protestant, and her accession meant the relinquishment of the Catholic hold upon England.   [Please select]

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This alteration in policy, however, was perhaps more the result of changing conditions than of relinquishment of Harriman's aims.   [Please select]

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The passion slumbering in the eyes, however, might at any moment burst forth in some wild relinquishment of control and self-restraint.   [Please select]

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It was resolved to send a deputation to Paris to try to obtain from Napoleon the relinquishment, or at least a modification, of his demand.   [Please select]

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