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Definition of Abandoned person
1. Noun. Someone for whom hope has been abandoned.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abandoned Person
Literary usage of Abandoned person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theological Institutes: Or, A View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals, and by Richard Watson (1851)
"... so that if the most abandoned person were to receive it for the first time in
the article of death, all his sins would be washed away. ..."
2. Public Hygiene in America: Being the Centennial Discourse Delivered Before by Henry Ingersoll Bowditch, Henry Goddard Pickering (1877)
"... abandoned person shall die, by reason of such wilful abandonment and desertion,
the person who abandoned or caused him to be abandoned shall be deemed ..."
3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"I say, a most wicked, horrid, and abandoned person, by name Miss Rosamund Clifford,
had weaned the King's affections from his lady, Queen Eleanor. ..."
4. The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1889)
"I say, a most wicked, horrid, and abandoned person, by name Miss Rosamund Clifford,
had weaned the King's affections from his lady, Queen Eleanor. ..."
5. The Prison Question: A Theoretical and Philosophical Review of Some Matters by Charles Howell Reeve (1890)
"... any person of notorious bad moral character, any abandoned person, or person
living as a vagrant with no visible means of support though not a public ..."
6. An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary (including A Grammar of the Ainu Language.) by John Batchelor (1905)
"An abandoned person. A person bent on mischief. An adulterer. An utterly wicked
person. One who prays that evil may overtake another. ..."
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