Abandon is applied to both good and evil action a thief abandons his designs, a man his principles.
Abandon implies previous association with responsibility for or control of forsake implies previous association with inclination or attachment, real or assumed a man may abandon or forsake house or friends he abandons an enterprise forsakes God. Relinquish commonly implies reluctance the fainting hand relinquishes its grasp the creditor relinquishes his claim. We quit business, give up property, resign office, abandon a habit or a trust. A cowardly officer deserts his ship the helpless passengers abandon it. The king abdicates his throne, cedes his territory, deserts his followers, renounces his religion, relinquishes his titles, abandons his designs. Quit carries an idea of suddenness or abruptness not necessarily implied in abandon, and may not have the same suggestion of finality.
Abandon is a word of wide signification, applying to persons or things of any kind abdicate and resign apply to office, authority, or power cede to territorial possessions surrender especially to military force, and more generally to any demand, claim, passion, etc.
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