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Synonyms for abandonment
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-ban-duhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈbæn dən |
Top 10 synonyms for abandonment
Définition of abandonment
Origin :- 1610s, from French abandonnement, from abandonner (see abandon (v.)).
- noun forsaking
- noun abdication
- noun abandon
- Abandonment and abuse are not acts of God, they are failures of love.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Her act of abandonment was really an arrangement for settling her son permanently in life.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- This abandonment of the second topic threw him on the third.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- But it never woke him to remorse, or to abandonment of his design.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- And how desolate was its abandonment, what a stream of silence and solitude it was!
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- He ran from the room, and Jan felt that this was only an added pang of abandonment.
- Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
- This included the abandonment of Belgrade on November 29, 1914.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) » by Various
- It is the vice of our public speaking that it has not abandonment.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He must take his place by her side, and if that included the abandonment of his ideals, so be it!
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- I shrugged my shoulders in my abandonment of hope, and I turned towards the window.
- Extract from : « Bardelys the Magnificent » by Rafael Sabatini
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