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Definition
to give something up, or to let go of something
- The spoons were moved slowly: I saw each girl taste her food and try to swallow it; but in most cases the effort was soon relinquished.Chapter 5 (47% in)
- Many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread distributed at tea-time; and after relinquishing to a third half the contents of my mug of coffee, I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the exigency of hunger.Chapter 7 (7% in)
- A note was accordingly addressed to that lady, who returned for answer, that "I might do as I pleased: she had long relinquished all interference in my affairs."Chapter 10 (66% in)
- St. John, no doubt, would have given the world to follow, recall, retain her, when she thus left him; but he would not give one chance of heaven, nor relinquish, for the elysium of her love, one hope of the true, eternal Paradise.Chapter 32 (22% in)
- You might relinquish that scheme.Chapter 32 (78% in)
- Relinquish!Chapter 32 (78% in)
- Must I relinquish that?Chapter 32 (79% in)
- "You give it up very gleefully," said he; "I don't quite understand your light-heartedness, because I cannot tell what employment you propose to yourself as a substitute for the one you are relinquishing.Chapter 34 (6% in)
- In the resolute readiness with which you cut your wealth into four shares, keeping but one to yourself, and relinquishing the three others to the claim of abstract justice, I recognised a soul that revelled in the flame and excitement of sacrifice.Chapter 34 (69% in)
- I would not so soon relinquish the attempt to reconquer it.Chapter 35 (17% in)
- He relinquished the endeavour, folded his arms, and stood quiet and mute in the rain, now falling fast on his uncovered head.Chapter 37 (12% in)
There are no more uses of "relinquish" in Jane Eyre.
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