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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Abandoned Camps, Trickery
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Self-Abandonment
• Abandonment
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• Abandoning
• Abandoner
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• ἀπολείπω
• ἀφίημι , ἐναφίημι
• ἐγκαταλείπω
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• יָד
• מִן מִנִּי, , מֵעַל
• נָאַר
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(1):

(n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon.

(2):

(n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

(3):

(n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

(4):

(n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.

(5):

(n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.