Definition of Abandonment

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Abandonment

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.

The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

Careless freedom or ease; abandon.

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Abandonment Quotations

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mohandas Gandhi

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Orson Welles

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
Maimonides

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Henry Rollins

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.
Tilda Swinton

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.
Kenny Loggins

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
John Desmond Bernal

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
Johan Huizinga

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
Henry Charles Carey

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.
Dwight Yoakam

Abandonment Translations

abandonment in Dutch is concessie, cessie, afstand, toegeving
abandonment in German is Aufgabe, Aufgabe {f}, Verlassenheit, Nichtannahme
abandonment in Italian is quesito
abandonment in Portuguese is abandono
abandonment in Swedish is uppgivenhet

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