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Definition of Abandoned
Abandoned

of Abandon

Forsaken, deserted.

Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

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Abandoned Quotations

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Blaise Pascal

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Bernard Baruch

Abandoned Translations

abandoned in Afrikaans is immoreel
abandoned in Dutch is gemeen, immoreel, onzedelijk
abandoned in German is herrenlos, aufgelassen
abandoned in Latin is desolo
abandoned in Portuguese is abandonado
abandoned in Spanish is abandonado

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