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QUITTED

Definition: QUITTED

QUITTED

1. Of Quit

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "QUITTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Crosswords: QUITTED

English words defined with "QUITTED": Quittable. (references)
Specialty definitions using "QUITTED": absorbing barrier, absorbing stateCatiline's ConspiracyGay DeceiverIsland of the Seven CitiesMartano. (references)

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Commercial Usage: QUITTED

DomainTitle

Books

  • Letters from the Ursuline, 1852-1853 : from our beloved sisters, who quitted St. Mary's, April 17th, 1852, to commence the Mission at San Antonio (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: QUITTED

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

But because no political society can be, nor subsist, without having in itself the power to preserve the property, and in order thereunto, punish the offences of all those of that society; there, and there only is political society, where every one of the members hath quitted this natural power, resigned it up into the hands of the community in all cases that exclude him not from appealing for protection to the law established by it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: QUITTED

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

He quitted the militia and engaged in trade, having brothers already established in a good way in London, which afforded him a favourable opening.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

It seemed not yesterday, not one, nor two, but many days, or even years ago, since he had quitted them.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the following papers in my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I should think fit.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: QUITTED

"QUITTED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "QUITTED" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)57.14%8124,375
Lexical Verb (past participle)42.86%6143,867
                    Total100.00%14N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: QUITTED

Language Translations for "QUITTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

æ"¾å¼ƒ (Abandonment, Abnegate, Abnegated, Abnegating, Abort, Aborted, Ditched, Ditching, quit, Quits, Quitting, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, renege, renounce, Renounced, Renouncing, Waive, Waived, Waiver, Waiving). (various references)

   

French

  

quittai, quittés, quittées, quittâmes, quittèrent. (various references)

   

German

  

verlassen (abandon, abandoned, abandonment, derelict, derelicted, desert, deserted, desertion, desolate, evacuate, exit, forlorn, forsake, leave, lonely, loose, move away, quit, quitting, solitary, to derelict, to desert, to evacuate, to forlorn, to leave, untrodden). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

종료하ëŠ" (quit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ittedquay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: QUITTED

Derivations

Words ending with "QUITTED": acquitted. (additional references)


Misspellings

"QUITTED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aquitted, equitted, quated, quette, quinted, quirted, Quitak, quited, quiteh, quiten, quitey, Quitte, quoited. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: QUITTED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-q-t-t-u"

-2 letters: equid, quiet, quite.

-3 letters: diet, dite, duet, duit, edit, etui, quid, quit, tide, tied.

-4 letters: die, dit, due, dui, ted, tet, tie, tit, tui, tut.

-5 letters: de, ed, et, id, it, ti, ut.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-q-t-t-u"
 

+2 letters: acquitted.

 

+3 letters: antiquated, aquatinted, briquetted.

 

+4 letters: equidistant, quantitated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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