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giving up

NOUN
  1. a verbal act of admitting defeat
  2. the act of forsaking

How To Use giving up In A Sentence

  • Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
  • He could never fathom ever giving up his absolute free will.
  • She instantly regretted giving up her beautiful, loose robe for such whorish attire.
  • White has two ways of giving up a piece for the attack in the main line, and they're both looking as deadly as ever.
  • He had formed a violin trio with his two brothers after giving up a career in medicine for music.
  • Her main strength is her hypocrisy, which she uses to bully the other teams into giving up luxuries that she herself uses daily.
  • Giving up smoking had a magical effect on his stamina.
  • He chose Sazanka because, in Japan, the plant represents the ideal of “never giving up”—a designation earned by the way that the flower survives the cold, even after snowfalls. First Contact
  • Any concerns about giving up that kind of bankroll at this point in your career? JSOnline.com
  • Some of the best and the brightest are giving up, rejecting businesses based on flimflams and deceptive marketing. Danny Schechter: Why The Government Can't "Fix" the Crisis
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