relinquishment
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8.2
- noun
- /rɪˈlɪŋkwɪʃmənt/
- Formal
:
renuncia
- The paperwork for the relinquishment was finalized in court, allowing the new parents to adopt the child.
- relinquishment of rights
Examples
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The fact of the matter is that relinquishment is not an option.
Blog text (15) -
He felt a sense of peace after the relinquishment of his claim to the property.
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Situation: The birth mother gave the father relinquishment papers, and he did not sign them.
Blog text (28) -
The relinquishment of something at less than its presumed value.
Academic text (2001) -
First, it provided for the relinquishment of any Choctaw claim to lands west of 100 W longitude.
Academic text (2004) -
Each treaty is unique, but the common outcome was tribal relinquishment of ancestral lands and cessation of hostile actions by both parties.
Academic text (2007) -
But when he makes the leap from "neighbor love" to "every person has the right to be Israel," he shows his project to be underwritten by a relinquishment of the claim that the Jewish people of God carry a distinctive political significance.
Academic text (2000) -
Rodney Clapp has identified three types of Christian responses to the demise of Christendom: retrenchment, relinquishment, and radicalization.
Academic text (2000) -
The chiefs, Picketing later wrote, in agreeing to the treaty's terms, had not objected to an explicit relinquishment of the lands claimed by Pennsylvania, including the Erie Triangle.
Academic text (1995) -
Before the adoption could proceed, the mother had to complete the relinquishment of her parental rights.
Synonyms
102
4.1
Something given up in a negotiation to reach an agreement
100
3.2
Stopping trying because you think you cannot succeed
25
4.3
An act of giving up something valuable or selling it for less than it is worth
20
6.2
Leaving someone, a place, or a duty when you should stay to help
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8.1
Giving up a position of power, usually by a king or leader
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5.9
Giving up ownership of property with no plan to take it back
5
8.3
Giving up in a fight or war under agreed terms
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8.2
An official act of giving up a right, claim, or thing you own
1
9.0
To give up land, rights, or property by a formal agreement
1
7.7
Giving up a right, job, or thing you own
1
8.9
To give up a right, title, or claim in a formal way
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8.0
Giving up land, power, or rights to someone else
1
7.4
Giving up someone or something and leaving them behind
Giving up something you could have, like a right or pleasure
The act of giving up a right or claim in public
Admitting you have lost or accepting that others are right
An act of ending an argument by accepting the other person's view
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
relinquishment = relinquish (transparent) = relinquish + ment
A regular deverbal noun formed with the productive suffix '-ment', meaning 'the act or result of relinquishing'.
Etymology
Relinquishment comes from the verb relinquish, made of re- 'back' and linquere 'to leave', so it literally means 'to leave behind'. So a relinquishment is the act of giving up or surrendering a right, position, or responsibility.