All 5 Uses of
relinquish
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- It is little to relinquish.†
Chpt 2.9 *relinquish = gave up or let go
- But, he had oppressed no man, he had imprisoned no man; he was so far from having harshly exacted payment of his dues, that he had relinquished them of his own will, thrown himself on a world with no favour in it, won his own private place there, and earned his own bread.†
Chpt 2.24
- Because he had voluntarily relinquished a title that was distasteful to him, and a station that was distasteful to him, and had left his country—he submitted before the word emigrant in the present acceptation by the Tribunal was in use—to live by his own industry in England, rather than on the industry of the overladen people of France.†
Chpt 3.6
- He had already explained to her that his concealment from herself of the name he had relinquished, was the one condition—fully intelligible now—that her father had attached to their betrothal, and was the one promise he had still exacted on the morning of their marriage.†
Chpt 3.13
- He has not relinquished her patient hand in getting out, but still holds it as he promised.†
Chpt 3.15
Definition:
to give something up, or to let go of something -- typically an idea, position or possession