All 3 Uses of
relinquish
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- These, and all such writers of society, whose new works glow like the rich texture of a just-woven carpet, must be content to relinquish their charm, for every reader, after an age or two, and could hardly be supposed to retain any portion of it for a mind that had utterly lost its estimate of modes and manners.†
Chpt 9relinquish = gave up or let go
- He had that sense, or inward prophecy,—which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,—that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are the harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.†
Chpt 12
- Will he persuade the purchaser of the old Pyncheon property to relinquish the bargain in his favor?†
Chpt 18 *
Definition:
to give something up, or to let go of something -- typically an idea, position or possession