delinquish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "as a thief being purſued with Hugh and cry to fave himſelf doth delinquiſh them"
- "He agreed to delinquish his place on the vacation schedule."
- "He was beginning to feel threatened by Chester, because he was the man of the house and he refused to delinquish his role."
- "The ſeuerer ſort eat not fleſh, or any thing that had life: but if any delinquiſh, their penance is not hard"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē- Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *linékʷti Proto-Italic *linkʷō Latin linquō Latin dēlinquōbor. ▲ English relinquishinflu. English delinquish Borrowed from Latin dēlinquō (“to fail, err”) with the addition of -ish. Sense 1 was influenced by the similar verb relinquish.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
delinquishes (present, singular)
delinquishing (participle, present)
delinquished (participle, past)
delinquished (past)