different between abandoner vs abandonment

English

Etymology

abandon +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bænd?n?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bænd?n?/

Noun

abandoner (plural abandoners)

1. One who abandons. [Late 16^th century.]
   • 1595, Francis Sabie, The Fissher-mans Tale of the Famous Actes, Life and Loue of Cassander a Grecian Knight, London,^[1]

     Sin-hating powers, reformers of all vice,

     Abandoners of euil and cruell actes,

     Cease to pursue with weapons of reuenge,

     Mine haynous and intollerable fact.

   • 1634, John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, London: John Waterson, Act V, Scene 1, p. 74,^[2]

     […] cold and constant Queene,

     Abandoner of Revells, mute contemplative,

   • 1990, David Foster Wallace, “The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress” in Both Flesh and Not, New York: Little, Brown, 2012,^[3]

     […] Kate’s been left in the emotional lurch by all sorts of objectifying men, psychic abandoners who range from her husband […] to her final lover […]

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• (noun): IPA^(key): /aba??d???r/, /aban?d???r/, (verb): IPA^(key): /aband??ne?r/
• (noun):
• (verb):
• (noun): Rhymes: -?r, (verb): Rhymes: -e?r
• Hyphenation: ab?an?do?ner

Noun

abandoner m

1. indefinite plural of abandon

Verb

abandoner

1. imperative of abandonere

Anagrams

• banneorda

Old French

Etymology

From abandon, abandun; or from à ban doner, from Frankish *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannan?.

Verb

abandoner

1. to abandon

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• ? English: abandon
• Middle French: abandonner
  • French: abandonner
    • ? Norwegian Bokmål: abandonere

English

Etymology

From French abandonnement, from abandonner (“to abandon, relinquish”). abandonner was originally equivalent to mettre à bandon (“to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another”), bandon being from Medieval Latin bandum, bannum (“order, decree, ban”). Equivalent to abandon +? -ment. (See also English banns.)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??bæn.dn?.mn?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??bæn.dn?.mn?t/

Noun

abandonment (countable and uncountable, plural abandonments)

1. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. [Late 16^th century.]
2. The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.

   Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment.

3. An abandoned building or structure.

   High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.

4. (law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author. [Early 19^th century.]
5. (law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. [Early 19^th century.]
6. The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
7. A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
8. The self-surrender to an outside influence. [Mid 19^th century.]
9. Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions. [Mid 19^th century.]

Synonyms

Antonyms

Related terms

• abandonable
• abandoned
• abandonee
• abandoner

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Further reading

• abandonment at OneLook Dictionary Search
• abandonment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.