derelictionとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American, Received 発音) IPA^(key): /dɛɹ.ɪ.ˈlɪk.ʃən/
• 韻: -ɪkʃən
• ハイフネーション: der‧e‧lic‧tion

名詞

dereliction (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 derelictions)

1. Willful neglect of one's duty.
   • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1]:

     And his final act—leaving the Watch to accompany Tormund and the Wildlings back into the woods North of the wall—no longer seems like a dereliction of duty. It’s the recovery of duty, found by a man who feels he betrayed his queen, who thinks there’s no longer a place for him in these lands.

   The new soldier did not clean his cabin and was scolded for dereliction and disobedience.

   What he did was a terrible dereliction of duty.

2. The act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     To this we must contend with prayer , with actual dereliction and seposition of all our other affairs

3. Land gained from the water by a change of water-line.