0 present participle of relinquish
1 to give up something such as a responsibility or claim:
While not relinquishing all hope to do so, they issued statements that might accommodate any outcome.
Therefore, the late-onset group might represent those who have employed these processes satisfactorily throughout life but have difficulty relinquishing fundamental sources of personal meaning.
In this setting, social workers are moving into a role of facilitator and provider of resources, and relinquishing many decision-making powers.
This pattern is consistent with relinquishing the habits as one ages.
The task would require winning cultural legitimacy without relinquishing the basic tenants of the faith.
Inherent in this experimental practice one thus finds a relinquishing of interpretive authority.
The pleasure of consummating this union lies partly in the relinquishing of the traditional father-son rivalry, essential to the formation of the normative man.
The significance of relinquishing this physical contact is uncertain.
