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

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

Relinquished trustingly to him, he had sat with it by a cheerful fire—without evil intent, I do truly believe.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Wilson, Harry Leon

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