RELINQUISHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relinquished mean? 

• RELINQUISHED (adjective)
  The adjective RELINQUISHED has 1 sense:

1. that has been withdrawn or retreated from

  Familiarity information: RELINQUISHED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELINQUISHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That has been withdrawn or retreated from

Similar:

unoccupied (not seized and controlled)

 Context examples 

Mr. Dick would not have relinquished his post of candle-bearer to anyone alive.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Wolf Larsen nodded approval and relinquished the wheel to me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A note was accordingly addressed to that lady, who returned for answer, that "I might do as I pleased: she had long relinquished all interference in my affairs."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was an alliance which he could not have relinquished without pain; and thus he reasoned.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The Clifton scheme had been deferred, not relinquished, and on the afternoon's Crescent of this day, it was brought forward again.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

When little Vladimir finally relinquished her, with assurances that he was 'desolated to leave so early', she was ready to rest, and see how her recreant knight had borne his punishment.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Perhaps they began to feel it might have been kinder and wiser to have resisted the temptation of any delay, and spared her from a taste of such enjoyments of ease and leisure as must now be relinquished.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

During the two years that had elapsed previous to their marriage my father had gradually relinquished all his public functions; and immediately after their union they sought the pleasant climate of Italy, and the change of scene and interest attendant on a tour through that land of wonders, as a restorative for her weakened frame.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Elinor tried very seriously to convince him that there was no likelihood of her marrying Colonel Brandon; but it was an expectation of too much pleasure to himself to be relinquished, and he was really resolved on seeking an intimacy with that gentleman, and promoting the marriage by every possible attention.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had relinquished his legal suit of black for the purposes of this excursion, and wore the old surtout and tights, but not quite with the old air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)