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Definition of Abandonment
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

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 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

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?
Randall Terry

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
Kenny Guinn

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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