abandoning
noun/əˈbændənɪŋ/
1
An act by which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment; neglect.
- Their sensuality—[…] —their universal and insatiable lustings, and disgraceful abandonings of their unhappy victims— […] may not be credited by those who have not proof of such crimes.1842, Richard Oastler, The Fleet Papers, volume 2, page 306:
- I […] owe the one who depends upon me the gentlest of abandonings, if I leave him.1985, Annette Baier, “Frankena and Hume on Points of View”, in Postures of the Mind, →ISBN, page 174:
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- We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins and we cannot afford all these abandonings.2003, Susan Peterson, The Craft and Art of Clay, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 315: