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present participle and gerund of abandon examples
plural abandonings
An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect quotations examples
Their sensuality— […] —their universal and insatiable lustings, and disgraceful abandonings of their unhappy victims— […] may not be credited by those who have not proof of such crimes.
1842, Richard Oastler, The Fleet Papers, volume 2, page 306
I […] owe the one who depends upon me the gentlest of abandonings, if I leave him.
1985, Annette Baier, “Frankena and Hume on Points of View”, in Postures of the Mind, page 174
We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins and we cannot afford all these abandonings.
2003, Susan Peterson, The Craft and Art of Clay, 4th edition, page 315