Upon which the Chancellor, by way of note said, 'it is suggested, that there is a relict of the deceased, married to another man, who has joined her in a power of attorney to authorize the sale of her interest, […]'
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Relict
//ˈɹɛlɪkt//
Synonyms for "relict" (6 found)
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5 entriesis a
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17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
20 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- вдовица noun (relic)
- реликтен вид noun (in biology, ecology)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 孑遺 /孑遗 noun (in biology, ecology)
Czech
2 entries- reliikt noun (relic)
- relikt noun (in biology, ecology)
Danish
2 entries- levn noun (relic)
- relikt noun (relic)
Dutch
2 entries- overblijfsel noun (relic)
- relict noun (relic)
Finnish
1 entries- pyhäinjäännös noun (relic)
Greek
1 entries- λείψανο noun (relic)
Macedonian
4 entries- вдо́вица noun (relic)
- о́станка noun (relic)
- рели́кт noun (relic)
- рели́ктен вид noun (in biology, ecology)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- relikt noun (in biology, ecology)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- relikt noun (in biology, ecology)
Polish
1 entries- relikt noun (relic)
Portuguese
1 entries- relicto noun (in biology, ecology)
Swedish
1 entries- relikt noun (relic)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence, an assured future.
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[…] a continental northern Alaskan element, including a series of endemic species and disjuncts that have survived the Pleistocene glaciation in northern Alaska and thus represent relicts of the much warmer Tertiary […]
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The species may be a relict of former stages of historical vegetation and landscape development resulting from past climate changes (glacial and post- glacial periods).
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