relinquishment

How To Use relinquishment In A Sentence

• Among the Buddhist monks, it was their practice as part of their religion to shave off their heads as a symbol of relinquishment of all fascinations for worldly attractions and stringency of living as well.
• This mass relinquishment will re-expose spring's rookeries, which have been concealed these last few months, forgotten. Times, Sunday Times
• This mass relinquishment will re-expose spring's rookeries, which have been concealed these last few months, forgotten. Times, Sunday Times
• The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.For life is a paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
• The relevant section specifies that “relinquishment of the exercise of ordained ministry removes from the [cleric] the right to exercise … spiritual authority as a minister of Word and Sacraments conferred in ordination.” ACoC priest, Alan Perry, questions the ACNA briefing paper « Anglican Samizdat
• A wary Hamilton thought he'd better break off the affair, but Maria's "appearances of violent attachment, and of agonizing distress at the idea of relinquishment" played on his "sensibility, perhaps my vanity," so he planned "a gradual discontinuance ... as least calculated to give pain, in case a real partiality existed" - meaning he couldn't keep away from her. City Journal
• For life is paradox: it enjoins us to cling to its many gifts even while it ordains their eventual relinquishment.
• Caretakers report behavior problems as the primary reason in 40% of dog relinquishments and 28% of cat relinquishments.
• In the mail I received a signed relinquishment for the land from the young man, withdrew the contest and sold the relinquishment, which is the filer's claim to the land, for $450. Land of the Burnt Thigh
• Our curriculum trains for the relinquishment of judgment as the necessary condition of salvation.