It is my experience that it is only an amiable man in this world who receives testimonials, only an unambitious one who abandons a London career for the country, and only an absent-minded one who leaves his stick and not his visiting-card after waiting an hour in your room.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— to give up to the control or influence of another person or agent
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Macmillan
— to leave someone when you should stay with them and look after them
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1 use of ‘abandons’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle