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surrender
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Surrender is an album by English soprano Sarah Brightman featuring songs composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber . The album’s booklet also includes Lloyd Webber's commentary for each song.
Wiktionary
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n. 1 An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation. 2 The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand. 3 (context legal property law English) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., in law, "a giving up" (of an estate, land grant, interest in property, etc.), from Anglo-French surrendre , Old French surrendre noun use of infinitive, "give up, deliver over" (see surrender (v.)).\n\n\n\n
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, v. i. To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.
Usage examples of surrender.
Admiral Bossu, seeing that further resistance was useless, and that his ship was aground on a hostile shore, his fleet dispersed and three-quarters of his soldiers and crew dead or disabled, struck his flag and surrendered with 300 prisoners.
This is very aptly shown by the fact that under feudalism allodial titles were voluntarily surrendered for feudal ones.
Thus the state governments were placed in the easy situation of rich annuitants, who had surrendered the control of some political capital in order to enjoy with less care the opportunities of a plethoric income.
But would you believe that I purchase all this delight, joy, and happiness, for which I would cheerfully have surrendered ten years of my life, at the small cost of 500 francs per annum, paid quarterly?
At that point, they may find themselves with split loyalties: on the one hand, to defend the prime law of the anthropic cosmos, while at the same time, not wanting to surrender their misguided but nevertheless human peers into the claws of a great evil.
In the agreement the lawyer and the investor meet at the bank along with an appraiser certified by the APS, and the investment account is appraised, and if the current estimated resale value is higher than the breaking point in the agreement, the account is then accepted by the investor, and the agreement is surrendered.
The new top dog, this Archimandrite Luseferous guy, wanted the Hierchon to surrender.
But even there the Archimandrite was hearing rumours that the fleeing Navarchy ships were being allowed to surrender, or even accept a sort of neutral internment, still fully crewed and armed, rather than being destroyed or captured.
Holding down the trigger, Ryan fanned the hammer and put a barrage of miniballs into the man before he finally surrendered and slid to the floor in a crumbled heap.
Solms came from the besieging camp to investigate the sudden uproar, and to his profound astonishment was met by a deputation from the city asking for terms of surrender.
For the thousandth time, he wished Bowser were still here, wily and unpredictable and fiercely unwilling to surrender.
Just wait until the branding was over and the fiestas of the Christmas season were on, and watch him dog her every step until he received her signal of surrender.
God who made me, you can give a two-bray advantage to the greatest and most expert brayer in the world, because your sound is loud, your voice sustained, with the correct time and rhythm, your inflections numerous and rapid: in short, I admit defeat, and surrender the palm, and hand you the banner for this rare ability.
The town being considerably damaged by the bombs and bullets of the besiegers, and the garrison despairing of relief, the governor capitulated on the seventeenth day of June, when the city of Louisbourg, and the isle of Cape Breton, were surrendered to his Britannic majesty.
He surrendered his grasp of both rudder and mainsheet, becalming the sloop as he freed his hands for his twin, who backed away as Jesse reached for him.