relinquishment

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Dog Relinquishment Survey @ABCWelfare What factors contribute to people giving up a dog?

From Scientific American • Jun. 29, 2015

Relinquishment of claim to Moreño grant in favor of Valencia Valdés filed ten minutes ago.

From A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today by Raine, William MacLeod

All this, and more, comes from some young man's pride Of power to see,—in failure and mistake, Relinquishment, disgrace, on every side,— Merely examples for his sake, Helps to his path untried: 8.

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram

Again: by The Clerical Disabilities Act of 1870, a Priest may, by the law of the land, execute a "Deed of Relinquishment," and, as far as the law is concerned, return to lay life.

From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by Holmes, E. E.

Relinquishment of the opportunity to exercise a rare talent was not, in the nature of things, an easy effort to a young lady who was herself presumptuous as well as ambitious.

From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry