dereliction
/dɛɹ.ɪˈlɪk.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.55 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The new soldier did not clean his cabin and was scolded for dereliction and disobedience."
- "What he did was a terrible dereliction of duty."
- "[…] there on the table were the uncleared remains of Thursday's lunch, plain evidence of someone's dereliction."
- "And his final act—leaving the Watch to accompany Tormund and the Wildlings back into the woods North of the wall—no longer seems like a dereliction of duty. It’s the recovery of duty, found by a man who feels he betrayed his queen, who thinks there’s no longer a place for him in these lands."
- "To this we must contend with prayer , with actual dereliction and seposition of all our other affairs"
- "There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly."
Etymology
From Latin dērelictiō (“neglect, abandonment”), from dērelinquō (“to neglect, abandon”), from dē- + re- + linquō (“to leave”).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɛɹ.ɪˈlɪk.ʃən/
- British English: /dɛɹ.ɪˈlɪk.ʃən/