What is meant by forsaking all?
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Forsaking
Synonyms for "forsaking" (28 found)
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More general
17 entriesabandonmentactascetic adjectivebehaviorcessationconductdefectiondescriptive adjectivedisavowaldiscontinuationforgoingforswearingprocessqualitative adjectiverejectionreligious adjective
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21 entriesabandoningabandonmentabdicationabjurationasceticcessationdesertiondisavowaldiscontinuationduty neglectecclesiastical apostasyemotional forsakingfamily abandonmentmonasticparental abandonmentprofessional abandonment
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Collocations
14 entriesabandonment and forsakingact of forsakingforsaking a vowforsaking allegianceforsaking beliefsforsaking commitmentsforsaking dutiesforsaking homelandforsaking principlesforsaking traditionforsaking vowsforsaking wealthreligious forsakingspiritual forsaking
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The adjutant bird (Leptoptilus dubius) is one of Nature’s little jokes. It is a caricature of a bird, a mixture of gravity and clownishness. Everything about it is calculated to excite mirth—its weird figure, its great beak, its long, thin legs, its conspicuous pouch, its bald head, and every attitude it strikes. The adjutant bird is a stork which has acquired the habits of the vulture. Forsaking to a large extent frogs and such-like delicacies, which constitute the normal diet of its kind, it lives chiefly upon offal.
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