abandonとは

語源 1

• From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”),^[1] from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus,^[2] bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command”) (compare English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
• Displaced Middle English forleten (“to abandon”), from 古期英語 forlǣtan, anforlǣtan; see forlet; and Middle English forleven (“to leave behind, abandon”), from 古期英語 forlǣfan; see forleave.

動詞

abandon (三人称単数 現在形 abandons, 現在分詞 abandoning, 過去形および過去分詞形 abandoned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16^th century.]^[1]
2. (transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]^[1]
   • (Can we date this quote?), Macaulay, (Please provide the book title または journal name):

     He abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.

3. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]^[1]
   • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:

     In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […]   The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

4. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. [First attested in the late 15^th century.]^[1]
   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening‎^[2], page 3:

     Hope was overthrown, and yet could not be abandoned.

   Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16^th century until the mid 17^th century.]^[1]
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act I, scene ii:

     Being all this time abandoned from your bed.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Nicholas Udall, (Please provide the book title または journal name):

     that he might […] abandon them from him

6. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]^[1]
7. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.

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関連する語

• abandonment
• abandonware

語源 2

• From French, from Old French abandon, from Old French abondonner.

名詞

abandon (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 abandons)

1. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19^th century.]^[1][3]
   • 1954, Gore Vidal, Messiah:

     I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'

   • 2007 November 4, David M. Halbfinger, “The City That Never Sleeps, Comatose”, in The New York Times‎^[3]:

     They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.

2. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.

同意語

• (giving up to impulses): wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint

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