relinquished

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Relinquished by Gropius in 1928, the Bauhaus was directed successively by Functionalist Hannes Meyer and by Mies van der Rohe, a German architect famed for the elegance he has added to functionalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Relinquished by the boy, the lithe puppy falls into an easy horizontal attitude, and seems bent upon repose.

From The Author's Craft by Bennett, Arnold

A portion of this, prefatory to "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," has been published in the "Mosses," with the heading of "Passages from a Relinquished Work."

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons

The work, such as he here conceived it, exists only as a fragment, "Passages from a Relinquished Work," though he doubtless used elsewhere the stories he intended to incorporate into it.

From Nathaniel Hawthorne by Woodberry, George Edward

"The stately homes of England How beautiful they stood Before their recent owners Relinquished them for good," as the poet justly observes.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir