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GIVING UP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of forsaking
Synonyms:
forsaking; giving up
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("giving up" is a kind of...):
forgoing; forswearing; renunciation (the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A verbal act of admitting defeat
Synonyms:
giving up; surrender; yielding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("giving up" is a kind of...):
relinquishing; relinquishment (a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.)
Context examples:
Lady Bertram, who was a woman of very tranquil feelings, and a temper remarkably easy and indolent, would have contented herself with merely giving up her sister, and thinking no more of the matter; but Mrs. Norris had a spirit of activity, which could not be satisfied till she had written a long and angry letter to Fanny, to point out the folly of her conduct, and threaten her with all its possible ill consequences.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The instrument was unlocked, every body prepared to be charmed, and Marianne, who sang very well, at their request went through the chief of the songs which Lady Middleton had brought into the family on her marriage, and which perhaps had lain ever since in the same position on the pianoforte, for her ladyship had celebrated that event by giving up music, although by her mother's account, she had played extremely well, and by her own was very fond of it.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I should here observe to the reader, that a decree of the general assembly in this country is expressed by the word hnhloayn, which signifies an exhortation, as near as I can render it; for they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"I shall take the cream and the muffings," added Amy, heroically giving up the article she most liked.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There, indeed, lay real pleasure, for there she was giving up the sweetest hours of the twenty-four to his comfort; and feeling that, unmerited as might be the degree of his fond affection and confiding esteem, she could not, in her general conduct, be open to any severe reproach.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Edmund might, in the common phrase, do the duty of Thornton, that is, he might read prayers and preach, without giving up Mansfield Park: he might ride over every Sunday, to a house nominally inhabited, and go through divine service; he might be the clergyman of Thornton Lacey every seventh day, for three or four hours, if that would content him.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
