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abandoned, ppl. a.|əˈbændənd|
[f. abandon v. + -ed.]
1. Given up, relinquished, forsaken, cast off.
1477Caxton Jason 916 I pray you that ye will haue regarde to myn offre abandonned. 1578G. Fenton Hist. Guicciardin (Contents) The Pope being abandoned of all hope, accordeth with the Imperials. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. v. iv. 202 I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave. 1704Rowe Ulysses iii. i. 1093 A poor, forlorn, abandon'd woman. 1820Shelley Prom. Unbd. i. i. 217 As rainy wind thro' the abandoned gate Of a fallen palace. 1878Lever Jack Hunter vii. 46 A waiting-maid in the abandoned finery of her mistress.
2. Self-given up to any influence or pursuit; devoted. Now always to things evil or opposed to reason.
1393Gower Conf. ii. 1603 (I. 213) Which so ferforth was abandouned To Cristis feith. 1474Caxton The Chesse 104 Lecherye corupted and apayred the corages of tho men that ben abandoned to the same delyte. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. i. iv. 19 If she be so abandoned to her sorrow. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 13 Abandon'd to a callousness and numbness of Soul. 1722De Foe Hist. Plague 163 The people sat still..quite abandoned to despair. 1830Scott Demonol. Let. x. Profligate, worthless, sharking cheats, abandoned to vice.
3. Hence (without to): Given up unrestrainedly to evil influences; utterly bad, immoral, profligate. Of men and their actions.
1692Prior Ode in imit. Hor. iii. 2 Where our abandon'd youth she sees Shipwreck'd in luxury, and lost in ease. 1705Stanhope Paraph. XI. 476 That treacherous Kiss of an abandoned Disciple. 1711Steele Spectator vi. 1 Abandoned writings of men of wit. 1769Junius Lett. xxxiv. 150 Have you a single friend..so shameless, so thoroughly abandoned, as to undertake your defence? 1834Coleridge Table Talk 316 An abandoned woman who had been notoriously treacherous to us. 1880Spalding Eliz. Demonology 39 The abandoned impudence of the man! |