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Definition of Relinquish
Relinquish

To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.

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Relinquish Quotations

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
Ulrich Beck

Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles de Gaulle

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
Jean Cocteau

Relinquish Translations

relinquish in Afrikaans is afstaan
relinquish in Danish is give efter
relinquish in Dutch is afstaan, het veld ruimen, toegeven
relinquish in German is aufgeben, loslassen
relinquish in Portuguese is abandone

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