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Webster 1913 Edition
Abandoned
A-ban′doned
(ȧ-băn′dŭnd)
, Adj.
1.
Forsaken, deserted.
“Your abandoned streams.” Thomson.
2.
Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ;
as, an
. abandoned
villain
Syn. – Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile.
– Abandoned
, Profligate
, Reprobate
. These adjectives agree in expressing the idea of great personal depravity. Profligate
has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate
court, a profligate
ministry. Abandoned
is stronger, and has reference to the searing of conscience and hardening of heart produced by a man’s giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a man of abandoned
character. Reprobate
describes the condition of one who has become insensible to reproof, and who is morally abandoned and lost beyond hope of recovery. God gave them over to a
reprobate
mind. Rom. i. 28.
Webster 1828 Edition
Abandoned
ABAN'DONED
,pp.
2.
Given up, as to a vice; hence, extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.Definition 2024
abandoned
abandoned
English
Adjective
abandoned (comparative more abandoned, superlative most abandoned)
- Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked[First attested from 1350 to 1470][2]
- an abandoned villain
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. [Late 15th century][2]
- (Can we date this quote?), Thomson, (Please provide the title of the work):
- […] your abandoned streams […]
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- Free from constraint; uninhibited. [Late 17th century][2]
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in The Moon and Sixpence:
- Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
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- (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Synonyms
synonyms of "abdicate"
Translations
wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
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no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
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free from constraint, uninhibited
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geology: no longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it
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Verb
abandoned
- simple past tense and past participle of abandon
References
- ↑ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], ISBN 0550142304), page 2
- 1 2 3 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 2