RELINQUISHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relinquishing mean? 

• RELINQUISHING (noun)
  The noun RELINQUISHING has 2 senses:

1. a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.

2. the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.

  Familiarity information: RELINQUISHING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELINQUISHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

relinquishing; relinquishment

Hypernyms ("relinquishing" is a kind of...):

renouncement; renunciation (an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relinquishing"):

giving up; surrender; yielding (a verbal act of admitting defeat)

Derivation:

relinquish (turn away from; give up)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

relinquishing; relinquishment

Hypernyms ("relinquishing" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relinquishing"):

ceding; cession (the act of ceding)

handover (act of relinquishing property or authority etc)

discharge; release; waiver (a formal written statement of relinquishment)

Derivation:

relinquish (part with a possession or right)

 Context examples 

“If he were Admiral Hawke he shall pay his score,” cried Silver; and then, relinquishing my hand, “Who did you say he was?” he asked.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Anne knew that Lady Russell must be suffering some pain in understanding and relinquishing Mr Elliot, and be making some struggles to become truly acquainted with, and do justice to Captain Wentworth.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Her victory was announced by an unusual tranquillity and gladness of soul which followed the relinquishing of my ancient and latterly tormenting studies.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You give it up very gleefully, said he; I don't quite understand your light-heartedness, because I cannot tell what employment you propose to yourself as a substitute for the one you are relinquishing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the resolute readiness with which you cut your wealth into four shares, keeping but one to yourself, and relinquishing the three others to the claim of abstract justice, I recognised a soul that revelled in the flame and excitement of sacrifice.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She felt herself ill-used and unfortunate, as did her father; and they were neither of them able to devise any means of lessening their expenses without compromising their dignity, or relinquishing their comforts in a way not to be borne.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread distributed at tea-time; and after relinquishing to a third half the contents of my mug of coffee, I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the exigency of hunger.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)