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Definition of Abandoners
1. abandoner [n] - See also: abandoner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abandoners
Literary usage of Abandoners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Briefs on the Law of Insurance by Roger William Cooley, Lawrence Vold (1905)
"... and he is entitled to recover his moiety of the same freight against the
abandoners of the vessel (Hammond v. Essex Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 11 Fed. Cas. ..."
2. The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672: A Study in the Rise of Organised Dissent by Frank Bate (1908)
"... despair of ever having Husbands: having been cross'd in their loves or thwarted
in their ambition they presently turn abandoners of the World, ..."
3. Handbook of Social Resources of the United States by Genevieve Poyneer Hendricks (1921)
"Investigates cases of family desertion among Jews and locates Jewish abandoners
and induces them to return to their families. ..."
4. Indian Caste by John Wilson (1877)
"... teaching for hire, without manhood, practising fornication, disaffected to
friends, backbiters, sellers of the Sorna, abandoners of gurus or parents, ..."
5. My Life Out of Prison by Donald Lowrie (1915)
"... panderers, " hop-heads," murderers, abandoners of children, wife-beaters,
highwaymen, runaway girls and boys, and other offenders — all human beings, ..."
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