Crossword clues for riddance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Riddance \Rid"dance\, n.
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The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.
Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field.
--Lev. xxiii. 2 2. The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape. ``Riddance from all adversity.''
--Hooker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from rid + -ance. Good riddance, "a welcome relief from unpleasant company or an embarrassing connection" attested from 1650s (fair riddance in same sense from 1610s).
Wiktionary
n. The act of being rid of something.
WordNet
n. the act of removing or getting rid of something [syn: elimination]
the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion from school" [syn: ejection, exclusion, expulsion]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "riddance".
One wet day I seen Tiddly climbing into a car and he was never seen again, probably away off to the garage to rub some bogman with his mickey good luck and good fucking riddance.
Well, if that modernity has come to an end, and if the modern nation-state that served as the ineluctable condition for imperialist domination and innumerable wars is disappearing from the world scene, then good riddance!
I had not decerned she was to do any work to Mrs Girdwood, but only to stay out her term, advised her to do nothing when she went back but go to her bed, which she was bardy enough to do, until my poor friend, the deacon, in order to get a quiet riddance of her, was glad to pay her full fee, and board wages for the remainder of her time.
Privately, Frank thought the end of Salvatore Nervi was good riddance.
He was killed in the final battle between Sharra and Aldones, and good riddance.
He went on to declare with that loud voice of his that the death of Lopez was a good riddance to bad rubbish.
Past the Watchers on the easy side, down through the False Eagers, along Riddance Ridge to the Startles.
We have the False Eagers, the Startles, and Riddance Ridge to pass yet today before we go down the deepsoil pass to Harmony.
To-morrow, ere fresh morning streak the east With first approach of light, we must be risen, And at our pleasant labour, to reform Yon flowery arbours, yonder alleys green, Our walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth: Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums, That lie bestrown, unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease.
Good riddance, Yoshida thought, as he put his head back against the rest and sipped the champagne thoughtfully provided by his first-class flight attendant.
There'll be nae skaith to the kintry - just ae mair Hielantman hangit - Gude kens, a guid riddance!
And if it's the end, then good riddance to a species that has outlived its purpose.