Both Uses of
relinquish
in
The Scarlet Letter
- But the proprietor appeared already to have relinquished as hopeless, the effort to perpetuate on this side of the Atlantic, in a hard soil, and amid the close struggle for subsistence, the native English taste for ornamental gardening.†
p. 99.3 *relinquished = gave up or let go
- The buccaneer on the wave might relinquish his calling and become at once if he chose, a man of probity and piety on land; nor, even in the full career of his reckless life, was he regarded as a personage with whom it was disreputable to traffic or casually associate.†
p. 217.8
Definition:
to give something up, or to let go of something -- typically an idea, position or possession